On Friday 19 November 2010 14:25:57 Jacques Montier wrote:
> --
> Jacques
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> 
> Le 18/11/2010 23:55, Mick a gentiment tapote:
> > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 17:27:28 Jacques Montier wrote:
> >> Le 17/11/2010 18:07, walt a écrit :
> >>> On 11/17/2010 07:17 AM, Jacques Montier wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I use an astronomical open source imaging software
> >>>> (http://www.audela.org/)
> >>>> which works fine except when launching a tcl photometry script
> >>>> (Calaphot).
> >>>> X crashes with the error message :
> >>>> 
> >>>> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >>>> 
> >>>>    Major opcode of failed request:  148 (RENDER)
> >>>>    Minor opcode of failed request:  4 (RenderCreatePicture)
> >>>>    Serial number of failed request:  51329
> >>>>    Current serial number in output stream:  51338
> >>>> 
> >>>> I get the same crash on two PCs with Gentoo.
> >>>> I use an ATI graphic card
> >>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350
> >>>> [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
> >>>> and the open source radeon driver.
> >>> 
> >>> You may have found a bug in the open source driver.  Is there a binary
> >>> driver available from ATI that you can try?
> >> 
> >> Binary ati drivers don't work with this old graphic card (RV350 Radon
> >> 9600), but i can try again for see..
> > 
> > Have you tried enabling CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y in your kernel, disabling
> > vesa/uvesa and testing xorg-server-1.9.x it to see if it is more
> > stable/reliable?
> 
> Hi Mick
> 
> I enabled CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y, but the pc doesn't boot anymore
> (black screen).
> Returned to the old config...

Hmm I got that the first time because I still had uvesa enabled in the kernel.  
Disabled it and then I was able to boot fine.

Of course your hardware is slightly different so it may not behave the same.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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