On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:50 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 14:30 -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
I don't think it's video-card related.
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I'm glad I checked here that 4.x is borked as well, I was getting ready to re-load my system with 4.2...
Ben
Syv Ritch wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
Same symptoms you have. I worked around it by disabling rhgb on the boot line (see /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove all rhgb kernel command line parameters). Probably something related to the kernel DRM/DRI stuff, although the problem persists regardless of kernel I boot (the .11 kernel had been working fine, but with the new Xorg it didn't).
Thanks but actually, I have already tried it by removing "rhgb quiet" from grub to see what happened and X still died. X dies after rhgb ends.
I don't think that this has anything to do with with the kernel. I downloaded Ubuntu 5.10 and tried to install and the same thing happened. They use 2.6.12... It must be either the radeon driver that is bad or X itself.
Other people have reported having similar problem with ATI on both Suse 10 and Ubuntu 5.10, so it must be something recent in X. _______________________________________________
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I was concerned because of the posts I saw. So I followed suggestions and upgraded w/o problems. ATI Radeon (AGP), AK-77/400 (Max/N) Mobo, AMD 180MHz (220PR).
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd8000000/27, 0xe1000000/16, I/O @ 0xc000/8
I Did yum update of up2date, yum update of yum. Rebooted. Updated kernel. Installed all updates *except* everything start with "X" (actually, anything I could ID as coming from X-org and a few extras just to be sure), reboot, removing the rhgb.
Install all the rest, reboot normally. Not one problem yet. I know the 64 bit machines seed to report the most (only?) problems.
There is a problem with xorg-6.8.2 and certain ATI cards. The problem is upstream though.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170008
This issue is more prevalent on 64-bit machines ... but it probably also happens on many RADEON cards and on all arches.
Pasi Pirhonen (our ia64, alpha, s390(x), sparc guy :) saw this problem early on, and has developed a fix that works ... but RH now has it for action.
In the meantime, if you remark out the load DRI line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it should fix this specific issue.