SOLVED Xorg hangs with radeon driver

[Marat N.Afanasyev]

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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SY, Marat