On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Radeon kms is still buggy like hell and unusable for my RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] card. It makes X and the whole system freeze instantly when moving windows around or when I try to start 3d apps. Sometimes even at Xorg start at all. This has been introduced with 2.6.32 kernels. Upstream recommends to try the various drm trees:
I think the first logical step, if you can find the time, is that you first check if these more up-to-date trees actually fix your specific issue. If they don't, you will probably have to provide more information upstream. I have no idea how popular your card is. If they do, it would be interesting to know what Dave Airlie recommends to use for a distribution. Maybe following drm-radeon-next can be better than stable kernel releases ? In any cases, drm-radeon-testing does not sound like something that should be installed by default to everyone, but rather like something to try when things go wrong, and before reporting to upstream. That said, right now there is just one small commit difference between drm-radeon-next and drm-radeon-testing http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=r... This decision obviously depends a lot on the development model, that's why I think it's best to just ask airlied input. I can ask him if you don't (want to) :)