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[Ryan Nowakowski]

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On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:12:03PM -0600, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:51:34AM -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 08:56 -0600, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> > > 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 usin=
g vesa
> > > > > > > instead.=20
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > I've read lots of hints toward radeon being broken in Debian, b=
ut I'm
> > > > > > happily using xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 right now without any=
 problems
> > > > > > (well, apart from the EmulateWheelClick not working after it wo=
rked in
> > > > > > the experimental pre-releases, I just hope the patch from
> > > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D5071 makes it in=
to Debian
> > > > > > soon, and dual-head seems broken).=20
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > What exactly is the problem? Too many bugreports on xserver-xor=
g, 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 l=
ogin 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
> > >=20
> > > Try removing/disabling acpid.
> > >=20
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D345537
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D347680
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Mmh. I kind of need acpi. :)
>=20
> Yeah, me too.  But just try it to see if that's the problem.
>=20

I switched to the vesa driver and now I'm not freezing anymore.

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