[ltp] cannot start x - ThinkPad T42

[Ryan Nowakowski]

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:23 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > 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
> > >=20
> > > 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 probl=
ems
> > > (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 Deb=
ian
> > > soon, and dual-head seems broken).=20
> > >=20
> > > 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)
> > >=20
> >=20
> > 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:
> >=20
> > 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
> >=20
> > 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
> >=20
> > Cheers
> > Carlos
> >=20
>=20
>=20
> I spoke too soon. I got a freeze 5 minutes after sending my previous
> email. Back to square 1.
>=20

Try removing/disabling acpid.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D345537
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D347680


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