ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

[Bob Krzaczek]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:57:59AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> On 02/14/11 19:21, Ted Faber wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:43PM -0800, Chris H wrote:
> >>Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I disable hald(8), I have
> >>nearly no (video related) issues. This is both on x86&& amd64 systems.
> >
> >When I turn off hald, X xan no longer find the mouse and keyboard.  I can
> >probably hard wire them down, but I get the impression that lots of other
> >gnome-ish things will get confused w/o hald.
> 
> With HALD and DBUS enabled and an automatic generated xorg.conf file only
> HD4830 works, but it locks up/freezes the box when exiting Xorg/xdm.

I just want to add my experiences here as well, which are quite similar.
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on i386 (not amd64 at the time), xorg 7.5, at the time the
latest NVidia driver for GTX-285M hardware, on a Clevo W870-CU laptop.  The
system worked fine, but when I added hald to the existing configuration, I'd get
a very nasty hang of the whole system when the X server exited.

Eventually, it was as simple as 1) with hald, hang  2) without hald, fine

I will investigate the links embedded in other emails I've seen recently, about
not allowing empty devices and other hacks that I seem to have needed in my
xorg.conf.  If something useful comes of that, I'll post more data.  Otherwise,
I'd just like to add that this behavior is not limited to ThinkPads or ATI
hardware.

Bob


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Bob Krzaczek, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, RIT
phone +1-585-4757196, email krz at cis.rit.edu, icbm 43.0858N 77.6774W
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