Bug#397093: transcend: on Matrox G400, near-100% CPU usage, doesn't start, requires reboot to log in again

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 397093 xserver-xorg-video-mga
forcemerge 395025 397093
thanks

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:14:33PM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> Starting transcend completely destabilizes the entire system. 500 MHz
> Athlon, 256M RAM, Matrox G400. Even killing Xorg and transcend don't
> restore a normally functioning system; Xorg continues to use nearly 100%
> of CPU.

I can't reproduce this problem on either an amd64 system with a radeon, or
on an i386 system with an i810.  I'm pretty sure this is the same bug as
#395025, a known problem with GL in the current version of the MGA driver.

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