[ltp] cannot start x - ThinkPad T42

[Carlos Moffat]

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On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:23 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> Hi,
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> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:52 +0100, Wolfgang Karall wrote:=20
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:54 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > > What driver are you using? The radeon driver is broken right now in
> > > Debian (and, I think, all distros using Xorg 6.9) so I'm using vesa
> > > instead.=20
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> > I've read lots of hints toward radeon being broken in Debian, but I'm
> > happily using xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 right now without any problem=
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> > (well, apart from the EmulateWheelClick not working after it worked in
> > the experimental pre-releases, I just hope the patch from
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D5071 makes it into Debia=
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> > soon, and dual-head seems broken).=20
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> > What exactly is the problem? Too many bugreports on xserver-xorg, any
> > specific one? Or is it DRI-related? (no DRI for me atm with the
> > PCI-Express card)
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> Well, the problem was I was getting a hard freeze shortly after login to
> X11. After your message, I tried the radeon driver again (I hadn't,
> since they haven't touched the radeon driver since the upgrade to 6.9)
> and presto, it is working!! (at least for the last hour or so). I have
> glx and DRI loaded, but I've simplified my Device section to look like:
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> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "radeon"
>         Driver      "radeon"
>         Option          "RenderAccel" "on"
>         # enable PowerPlay features
>         Option          "DynamicClocks" "on"
>         # use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7)
>         Option          "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
> EndSection
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> If I don't get a lockup soon, I'll try to turn some other options on
> until I can find the problem and I'll report back.=20
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> Cheers
> Carlos
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I spoke too soon. I got a freeze 5 minutes after sending my previous
email. Back to square 1.

Carlos

> > Regards
> > WK
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> > http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p
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