SOLVED Xorg hangs with radeon driver

[Coleman Kane]

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Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> There is a patch or two floating around the archives of this mailing
> list (which I think has been merged into the DRM tree at
> freedesktop.org) which gets AIGLX working properly on ATI hardware.
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:12:07 +0300
> "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat at ksu.ru> wrote:
>
>> Valerio Daelli wrote:
>>> 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"
>>>
>> this makes my laptop completely useless at all, `cause of very slow
>> video output. I prefer the following solution
>>
>> echo 'WITHOUT_AIGLX=yes'>>/etc/make.conf
>> cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
>> make install clean
>>
>> and it works just fine on my radeon x700m
>>
>>> in the xorg.conf file and I have the desired color depth.
>>> Sorry for the noise
>>>
>>> Valerio Daelli
>>>

I believe you all are looking for the following:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11870

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Coleman Kane


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