strange crash

[Vlad Galu]

On 1/4/07, Randall Stewart <rrs at cisco.com> wrote:
> Anton Berezin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:18:12PM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote:
> >
> >> My "vacation" project was to reload the 80Gig disk that
> >> came with my Thinkpad T43 with the latest version of
> >> current...
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> I just decided to rebuild and reload my latest kernel changes I am
> >> working on for SCTP.. and for the first time I did the logout button.
> >>
> >> Bam.. black-screen.. and reboot.
> >
> > I have the same experience with my T-43, but only when there is a
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf present.  If I just start X without configuration,
> > everything's fine and dandy.  With configuration, ANY configuration (I had
> > to build some to work with external monitor, with presentation projector,
> > that sort of thing), I get exactly the symptoms you describe.
> >
> > It's been like that since I got the machine in the beginning of August.
> > It's been running moderately recent -current (never older than a month or
> > so).  I did not got around reporting this.
> >
> > So, just for the sake of it: move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way, sync
> > and wait, do your reboot magic, then see whether it works.
> >
> > \Anton.
> Hmm..
>
> Do you mean /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf
>
> I don't have anything in the /etc/X11 directory...
>
> And I thought that is where X11 got its know-how on how
> to initialize....
>
> I will try moving the one I have out of the way.. in fact
> thinking about it.. I did not regenerate this (with the
> config program) but copied it from my old disk.. but of
> course even if its bad it should not crash the kernel.

   FWIW, I experience the same symptoms on a Radeon Mobility X300.
They go away when I disable DRI. I think that by not using a
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, X switches to either vesa(4) or ati(4) drivers
instead of using radeon(4).

> R
>
>
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