[ltp] Problem with X (Radeon 7500)

[Florian Dorpmueller]

>Hi all,
>
>I have a Thinkpad R51 with a Radeon 7500, and I've been suffering random  
>hangs (nothing responds, even the HD blinklight remains lit if it was lit  
>when the hang happens) when starting the X server (Mandriva LE2005).
>
>I have never had problems once X is up and running, I have played 3D games  
>and everything. Nor when resuming from suspend-to-disk, I suspend with X  
>up and X comes still up. Only when starting the X server do I get the  
>hangs, and only some times.
>
>I'd say this is the "Radeon 7500 "DynamicClocks" randomly hangs" listed in  
>ThinkWiki, which leads to the bug report:  
>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2187
>
>Does anyone have a solution, workaround or comments?
>

If anyone has it would be interesting for me too. I have tried the dynamic 
clocks option with a patched xfree86 as well as in xorg and the same happend 
to me. Until yet I switched back to original xfree from sarge and by default 
I have disabled glx and dri which seems to have a better effect than the 
quite poor powerplay implementation in xorg. When dri and glx are needed I 
start a second X-Server with them activated.

Florian