xserver: Branch 'server-1.6-branch' - 10 commits

[RALOVICH, Kristóf]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 14:05, RALOVICH,
Kristóf<kristof.ralovich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:40, Brice Goglin<Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>> Brice Goglin wrote:
>>> Ian Romanick wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brice Goglin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This backport breaks the ABI (somewhere between 4cb4c210 and 6be19e8f, I
>>>>> couldn't finish the bisect). The server reproducibly freezes a couple
>>>>> seconds after Gnome startup with Intel 2.7.99.901, KMS and 2.6.30 on
>>>>> i945. Rebuildind the Intel driver against updated Xserver and DRI2 proto
>>>>> fixes the problem.
>>>>>
>>>> Can you provide more details, please?  I tested the released 2.7 bits
>>>> with the older dri2proto, and, with the exception of disabling DRI2, it
>>>> worked fine.  Can you attach gdb to xserver and get a backtrace?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know if it happens with intel 2.7 branch. I only tested with
>>> 2.7.99.901, with UXA/DRI2/KMS enabled.
>>>
>>> Here's a backtrace. I don't know what triggers it, it happens late
>>> during Gnome startup here. But some other users seem to get a crash
>>> right after login in gdm.
>>>
>>
>> By the way, this backtrace comes from i686. I think all crash reports we
>> received so far come from 32bits machines. So if you tested with a
>> 64bits machine, it may explain why you didn't see the crash.
>>
>> People are getting GL corruption on 64bits and 32bits with
>> server-1.6-branch as well, but we haven't bisected this one yet.
>>
>> Brice
>>
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>
> I can confirm this breakage on debian when upgrading
> xorg-xserver_1.6.1.901-2 to xorg-xserver_1.6.1.901-3. See the
> differences between
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xorg-server_1.6.1.901-2.diff.gz
> and http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xorg-server_1.6.1.901-3.diff.gz
> related to dri2!
>
> Kristof
>

this is on 64 bit