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From: Jacques Montier <jacmonti@×××××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:35:29
Message-Id: 445218A5.9080708@club-internet.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 by Iain Buchanan
1 Iain Buchanan a gentiment tapote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote:
5 >
6 >> I don't say you have to but if I were you I would:
7 >> - - update the xorg to 7.X
8 >> - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel
9 >> - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon into the kernel
10 >>
11 >
12 > can you specify what kernel version you're using, and what the config
13 > file names are for these two kernel options?
14 >
15 >
16 >> - - configure xorg to use the "radeon"-driver (This is not just changing
17 >> one line, you will have to reconfigure the whole section because the
18 >> different drivers use different parameters)
19 >>
20 >
21 > I thought I'd try your suggestion, since I already have modular xorg,
22 > and I'm getting fed-up with constantly-locking-up-ati-drivers.
23 >
24 > Also, what options do you have set in your xorg.conf file? Maybe even
25 > post your whole radeon "Device" section, if its small :)
26 >
27 > that would help me out a bit, I think.
28 >
29 > so far, I don't have dri (the Load "dri" command in xorg.conf locks up
30 > my laptop)
31 >
32 > thanks,
33 >
34 Hi,
35
36 Well, It's me again,
37 I was satisfied too quickly !
38 After upgrading xorg to xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and getting dri successfully,
39 gdm still crashes at reboot (kernel panic).
40 I really don't know what to do now :-(
41 Any idea ?
42
43 Thanks a lot,
44
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Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 Martins Steinbergs <mar@××.lv>