SOLVED Xorg hangs with radeon driver

[Valerio Daelli]

On Nov 24, 2007 10:31 AM, Valerio Daelli <valerio.daelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a laptop, an Acer TravelMate 2500 with a graphic card ATI Radeon RS300.
> I use 7.0-BETA3.
> If I generate an xorg.conf with 'Xorg -configure', th generated xorg.conf uses
> the radeon driver. If I try it with 'Xorg -config xorg.conf' (or with 'startx')
> the laptop hangs with a black screen, I am unable to get a dump or to
> switch to DDB.
> If I use the driver 'ati' I am able to get X working, but:
> 1-If I use the VideoRam in the card section the laptop hangs
> 2-If I specify a DefaultDepth of 16 or 24 it hangs
> I tried to disable the AIGLX option, but it does not work.
> So I am able to use only an 'ati' driver with DefaultDepth of 8 and no VideoRam.

Hi
Now thanks to Steve Roome I solved the problem.
I had to put

 Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, NONE"

and

Option "DRI" "off"

in the xorg.conf file and I have the desired color depth.
Sorry for the noise

Valerio Daelli