https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94414
--- Comment #17 from Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net --- (In reply to Michel Dänzer from comment #16)
(In reply to Felix Miata from comment #15)
I think what's happening is RAM deterioration.
That couldn't explain the error messages Jean-Philippe is getting. They indicate a software bug.
You wrote "the r300 driver isn't coping with the amount of VRAM available to it". I would expect unreliable RAM to be difficult to cope with. Bad coping may be a software problem, but if his coped with available RAM is less than it used to be, I'd expect he wouldn't be able to recover uncorrupted 1920x1200 without hardware replacement.
I think I may still have my corrupting rv380 X600 upstairs that I could reinstall in something if you think it might help development of better coping.
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