[ltp] Trouble with r300 and fglrx

[Michael Heinrich]

Arnaud Fontaine <arnaud@andesi.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Torsten" == Torsten Wolf <t.wolf@tu-bs.de> writes:
>
>     Torsten> something recently changed which causes the xserver to hang
>     Torsten> when restarting it. I added the option
>     Torsten> "AlwaysRestartServer=true" in gdm.conf without effect;
>     Torsten> sometimes restarting the server works, sometimes it hangs,
>     Torsten> eating up the cpu. So the fix in
>     Torsten> http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239 seems not to
>     Torsten> apply here. Does anybody experience the same?
>
> Hello,
>
> I haven't  a solution to  your problem, but  i have the same  issue with
> Debian  unstable and fglrx  drivers.  It  freezes when  i quit  Xorg. In
> addition,  3D performance  is really  bad.  Maybe it  comes from  recent
> upgrade of Xorg package in Sid... I don't know very well.
>

I had the same problems with T41p, fglrx 8.21.7, Xorg 6.8.2, Gentoo
suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r3.

But now everything just works!

Solutions were:

  - Use kernel-agp-Module (intel-agp.ko) instead of ATIs although fglrx
    complains in dmesg. Then X doesn't freeze anymore at restart.

  - "echo 5000 > /proc/suspend2/extra_pages_allowance" or "ProcSetting
    extra_pages_allowance 5000" in hibernate.conf to make swsusp2
    work. Error was something like "Pageset1 has grown by 4200
    pages. Only 100 growth is allowed for!" during hibernate.
    s. http://lists.suspend2.net/lurker/message/20051125.192055.7a57015e.en.html 

  - Use vesafb-tng framebuffer instead of radeonfb. Then
    2D/3D-acceleration works after resume.



Regards,

-- 
Michael Heinrich