RADEON/AIGLX DRI Lock At Initialization

[vehemens]

On Monday 09 July 2007 02:51:37 am Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 00:38 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> > I believe I have narrowed the problem down to __glXDRIscreenProbe()
> > removing the RADEON DRM lock that was set up with DRIFinishScreenInit().
> >
> > What happens is that __glXDRIscreenProbe() calls drmOpenOnce() which uses
> > drmAvailable() to test for the presence of the kernel driver.  If the
> > test passes, it closes the file descriptor and removes the lock.
>
> drmAvailable() opens and closes its own DRM file desriptor, which
> shouldn't have such side effects on existing DRM file descriptors. Could
> there be a bug in the DRM BSD code? Does the same problem occur on Linux
> for you? I've never seen it, FWIW.

I'll take a closer look at the file descriptors usage.  I don't have a Linux 
system at the moment, so I don't know.

> At any rate, you may want to move this to the dri-devel list.

I thought that list was dead :?