Radeon 9600 SE and xorg 7.3 => system crash

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Sun Sep 23 23:17:01 PDT 2007


Hi,

Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> 
> 
> --On måndag, måndag 24 sep 2007 08.36.31 +0800 Erich Dollansky 
> <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I recently updated xorg to 7.3 using portupgrade -R xorg. Since then,
>>> I'm degraded to using the console only. Any attempt to start x will
>>> crash the computer. Not a panic, it just crashes and reboots... :(
>>>
>>> I once managed to get a setup with very low resolution, 640x480 or
>>> something, that didn't crash, but most other settings do.
>>>
>> I never found out why, but leaving the mosue definition out of the
>> configuration file made my 7.2 installation working.
> 
> Did you experience the same problem, that the machine rebooted?
> 
depending on what I did before, it either hang completely or X simply 
returned to the prompt.

Just have a try.

Erich



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