OM2007.2 continuously freezes!

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Thu Jul 31 09:47:06 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
|> This evening I've tried the FSO getting exactly the same problems so
|> I've figured that problem resides in Xglamo (or maybe in glamo itself?
|> :o) since both the two well-working distros I've tested (Qtopia and ASU)
|> are using different systems (Qtopia writes directly to fb, while ASU
|> uses Xfbdev). Agree?
|
| To confirm this, I've just removed from my FSO installation Xglamo and
| replaced it with Xfbdev and all worked without freezes. It's all a
| little slower, but it works without freezes.
|
| Do you think that this is an hardware problem? :|

No, XGlamo contains a bunch of kernel code in userspace with no attempt
at cooperating with the kernel locking.  There's other fun stuff to do
with its synchronizing with the Glamo.  So this is "improvements needed
in XGlamo" problem I would think, not hardware.

- -Andy
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