On 04 Nov 2002 15:33:37 +0100
Christophe Saout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mon, 2002-11-04 um 07.51 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > i'm using a kernel 2.4.20-pre11 with a radeon module compiled from CVS. I have a
> > radeon 8500 LE (r200 QL), and every time i want to switch from X to VT, i've got
> > a blank screen and my computer is frozen... This means i can't halt|reboot
> > properly as i can't reach console mode... I'm wondering if someone has a clue
> > about that? I've set some optimisation flag when compiling (-march=athlon-tbird
> > -O2 -pipe), can this pose a problem?
>
> Similar problems here. Different kernels (2.4.18, 2.4.19, 2.5.4x),
> Radeon 8500, radeon driver from DRI CVS. The first time the switch into
> graphics mode always works. But restarting or resetting the X server
> (even turning it off and trying to rerun it hours later) or switching to
> text mode and switching back often kills the whole machine (very
> randomly, ~50% of the time). The video mode switch itself succeeds and I
> can see the old date in the frame buffer, but then the machine freezes
> and it doesn't get redrawn. The machine doesn't respond to anything,
> network is dead, the harddisk stops doing anything, completely dead. And
> it does the same thing (most of the time) when switching resolution in X
> (ctrl-alt-+/- oder starting a game in full screen mode).
>
> I always thought, this is was my fault. I've never had any luck with
> compiling XFree myself. My versions are always totally buggy (especially
> when compiling the whole tree). But compiling only the DRI part always
> worked, but then things got worse (freezes and so). But at the moment,
> even the binary snapshots of the radeon/r200 driver are showing the same
> symptoms (slightly better, but the system still crashes at about 25% of
> the X server restarts).
>
> Any ideas? Problem with the kernel? Problem with a buggy XFree module
> lying around? Problem with me? Another problem?
I had a similar problem with my Radeon7500. I always upgrade from
DRI-CVS and compile it myself. What seemed to introduce the problem was
when xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/scanpci/module/xf86PciData.c was
removed and replaced by a symbolic link to xf86ScanPci.c.
cvs reported a conflict on the file though I never changed it. So I
deleted it manually and did another cvs update. Then cvs scheduled
xf86PciData.c for removal and after the next build there was a symbolic
link xf86PciData.c->xf86ScanPci.c. After that I havn't had any more such
crashes.
Felix
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