Giving radeonhd a try...

[highlandsun]

Thanks to all for pursuing this. I've been a bit preoccupied...

In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day I'd be happy to send y'all a pint of Guinness for your trouble.

[bugmenot]

No problem.


*I* thank *you* for the docs and so free drivers! (and of course the devs, too )

[bridgman]

I think that's right. Thanks for trying...

[bugmenot]

Here is glxinfo with indirect rendering (if it's interesting):

http://pastebin.ca/1362714

Gonna try openoffice with indirect rendering out...


Edit: No success, still the same crash. (I started via "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 openoffice" and then opened the file. Is that correct?) Here is the xorg.log:

http://pastebin.ca/1362721

[bridgman]

Yep, I meant you. Thanks !

EDIT - actually I originally meant highlandsun, but since you reported the same problem...

It would be interesting to try with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set, which would (hopefully) force any 3D calls to go through the server and be at least semi-serialized against the 2D/video HW accel operations.

[bugmenot]

Brigdman: Did you mean me? If yes, here is the complete output, I'm running radeonhd git + drm git (R600 branch) from today on my RS780.

http://pastebin.ca/1362656

In short:
direct rendering: Yes

I did not test with radeon yet, but I think the problem does not occur there.

Thanks for your help.

[bridgman]

Can you check whether glxinfo says that Mesa is using direct or indirect software rendering ? I'm wondering if there is some kind of (lack-of-) synchronization issue between SW 3D rendering and HW 2D/video acceleration.

[bugmenot]

But yesterday I discovered a fatal downside - using OpenOffice 3.0 hangs the machine hard when I minimize an OO window, or do various other moves/resizes. So far OpenOffice is the only app I've used that exhibits this problem...

Yes, exactly! The driver is great, but sometimes locks up (with DRI enabled manually). I wrote an email to the radeonhd mailinglist:

http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2009-03/msg00148.html

I don't know if there is already a bug report in bugzilla for this issue. In any case, I can confirm this bug.

[agd5f]

violino:~> soffice
unknown chip id 0x95c4, can't guess.

I presume that it's some lower level library, and not OO itself looking at the video card's PCI ID ... ?

That message is from mesa (r300 3D driver). soffice must use GL for something. There is no 3D support for r6xx/r7xx hardware yet.

[highlandsun]

Well, I followed this post

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15988

to install the Jaunty Xserver on my Intrepid system, and now I can't reproduce the problem. It's now using the radeon driver, not radeonHD. I was surprised to see this message when I started openoffice though:

violino:~> soffice
unknown chip id 0x95c4, can't guess.

I presume that it's some lower level library, and not OO itself looking at the video card's PCI ID ... ?