radeon and FreeBSD freeze

[Michel Talon]

Boris Samorodov wrote:
> The most convenient way to freeze the OS is to finish gnome session.
> When gdm is reloading the whole mashine freezes at gnome greeter.
> The mouse cursor freezes while being a clock-buzzer. Ctrl-alt-del
> doesn't help, only reset does.
> 
> > Does disabling DRI in xorg.conf fixes the problem ?
> 
> Didn't try, but may do if it may help.

This is a well known problem, with radeon cards on machines with Via
chipsets. The freeze occurs under FreeBSD, Linux and even Windows,
most easily with DRI but sometimes without DRI. The only solution i have
found is to exchange the video card on the machine with a Via chipset to
an nVidia card, and put the Radeon on a machine with an Intel chipset.
Now i have zero problem, including with DRI. The radeon card now drives
a beautiful 1920x1200 screen without any problem, and gives a very good
display quality.



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Michel TALON