SOLVED Xorg hangs with radeon driver

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 04:08 -0500, 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.

yes the fix is committed to drm git HEAD.

robert.

> 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
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Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net>
2Hip Networks
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