On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:35 -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Syv Ritch wrote: >> >>> I have finally solved the problem. >>> >>> The problem IS [present tense] X. X dies with the ATI card. I have >>> tried changing the driver to ATI's, and still no dice. I ended >>> cannibalizing an older PC and changing the video card to an nVidia >>> GeForce2. Everything works well. >>> >>> Something's wrong on how X talks or does not talk to the ATI9200. >>> It's not the driver because it happens with both dri and fglrx, so >>> ... >> >> Same thing with the Radeon 7000 series... >> > Guys, > > This is a known issue with a patch on the 6.8.2 version of xorg-x11. It > is an upstream issue. > > Pasi Pirhonen (one of our CentOS developers) found and reported the > issue upstream. > > In the meantime, I believe if you disable dri in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file everything will work (except 3D). Sadly, disabling dri didn't work for me. Taking a look at ticket #170008 at bugzilla.redhat.com suggests that others are experiencing the same trouble. Just as sadly, I haven't yet taken the time to poke around the xorg sources to see if any patches have been commited that claim to fix the problem... -- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>