[ltp] Xorg 6.9.0 freezes on a T41p after a Debian update (unstable)

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On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:48 +0100, François Fleuret -
francois.fleuret@epfl.ch wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am using the Debian unstable and yesterday updated all packages. It
> installed the last version of Xorg (6.9.0).
> 
> Beside minor issues with xdm (which seems pretty messed up), the
> server itself just freezes. I am now using the vesa server and think
> about reverting to the 2.8.2.
> 
> My kernel is a vanilla 2.6.14, and I tried to play a bit with the
> options (no DRI, etc.) but it does not help. The server still freezes
> after a few seconds up to a few minutes.
> 
> Anybody with the same problem here ?
> 
> Cheers (and happy 2006),
> 

Same problem here with a t42p and the latest debian/sid packages. For
what I can read, it's definitely related to the radeon driver
(upstream), and there's nothing it can be done in xorg.conf to fix it. 

Take a look here:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=127757

and here

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-November/011191.html

Carlos

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