On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:14:48AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: > >And does the problem occur with the radeon (not radeonhd) driver? > > I have not checked recently Daniel. The last time I did check, it was ok, > but radeon was refreshing the screen really slowly, making it difficult to > scroll in FF and similar apps. I believe the ati module makes that choice, > but let me check the log, brb. > > Hmmm, brb was a rather optimistic statement. Switching /etc/X11/xorg.conf to > define the radeon driver instead of the radeonhd results in an x server crash > and no video from either output on the card, and is not recoverable with a > ctl-alt-bsp. ctl-alt-del gets me a boatload of dirty inodes cleaned up > messages on the reboot too. And once I had to use the hdwe reset to reboot > it, I tried it several times with the same no signal to the monitor results, > I'd guess at less than 500 milliseconds after I hit the return on a startx. > > So I am back on the radeonhd driver and things are hopefully back to as > normal as they usually are. > > Is this helpful?
That's obviously quite bad ... if you can file a bug, I'm sure Alex will get it fixed. Cheers, Daniel
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