Re: DRI error on X:1 (amd64)

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 02:22 +0200, Cyril Chaboisseau wrote:
>  Le 20 septembre vers 02:05, Cyril Chaboisseau écrivait:
> > what I did is to lauch the 1st session
> > everything was fine, really good performance
> > I commented out the 'Load dri' line
> > then, from the KDE menu I launched another session
>
> one more information concerning all those tests :
>
> after a X session has been messed up (screen unreadable), I can still
> come back to the original 1st X session that was fine
> but if I kill kdm and tries to restart X (only 1 session) then
> everything is again unreadable as if it were the 2nd session
>
> I cannot get X to work again without rebooting (I've tried 2/3 different
> setups and also rmmod/insmod fglrx but nothing changed)
>
> this is as if DRI has failed once, then it is impossible to get it to
> work again
>
>
> PS : unfortunately, the one test I forgot to do was to try once again
> with dri enabled

That would indeed be interesting. Anyway, as you've found out, running
more than one server isn't (well) supported by this driver yet.


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