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xserver-xorg-driver-via package

  1. Bug #43154
  2. Comment #65

Comment 65 for bug 43154

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In , Shankargiri (shankargiri) wrote :

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> First of all, thank you for the information: very nice job! I suspected it's
> something to deal with VBLANK IRQ - and now we know this for sure. This lock-up
> is often connected to timing issues in wikis so this partially support your
> conclusion. Unfortunately, I know a little about low-level hardware programming
> and can't imagine how to fix it but I'm sure the maintainer of this DRI driver
> (when it'll have one) would be be able to use your data to fix the problem.
>

Thank you. It just occured to me that this could be in some way related to [Bug 8641] New: interrupts not properly handled for VIA K8M00 / UniChrome Pro. This bug has to do with setting and clearing of interrupts not working properly. And according to description, rewriting the status register does not clear the interrupt. And the kernel disables the IRQ too. So just maybe, if someone fixes this, our bug could be fixed too!

Just a thought.