[ltp] Problem with T43p and Xorg: hard freeze :-(

[Alex Deucher]

On 11/28/05, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <bropers@cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
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> Reynald Borer said the following on 2005-11-28 09:25:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Recently I bought a brand new T43p 15", and I'm experiencing some hard
> > freezes with Xorg when using the radeon driver.
> >
> > My distribution is Gentoo Linux, and I'm currently using the VESA drive=
r
> > on Xorg 6.8.2 but it's really slow for videos...
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> Have you tried the radeon driver?
>
> > Any hints on this problem ? I've already tried "DynamicClocks Off" in m=
y
> > xorg.conf but it does not help. I'm also not able to use ATI binary
> > driver because my Xorg is compiled with dloader (if you know gentoo the=
n
> > you'll know what I'm talking about).
>
> I'm a Gentoo user (2.5 years) and don't know what your talking about, tho=
ugh
> perhaps I should. :) Can you explain?
>

you can build the Xorg server objects objects as either standard unix
shared libraries (drv.so, dlloader), or xfree86 "elf" objects (drv.o,
elfloader).  xfree86 and xorg used the "elf" loader (donated my
metrolink) since it allowed elf objects to be loaded on any OS on a
partiucular platform (eg, same driver would run on linux, bsd, etc.).=20
It has it's own set of limitations however and is going away in favor
of regular shored objects.  You can actually convert between elf and
dlloader formats using ld, IIRC.  check google.

Alex

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