Re: [Dri-users] Radeon 7500 locked

[Mario S. <mar...@gm...>]

From: "John Sheu" <joh...@au...>
> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 04:21 pm, Mario Streiber wrote:
> > I just installed a Radeon 7500 in my system (SuSE 8.1 on an AMD
K6-2/500).
> > The setup went through without problems but the card doesn't work
properly.
> > After starting KDE (or Gnome) it doesn't take long until the screen
> > freezes, except of the mouse pointer which still moves. I cannot even
> > switch to the ascii console.
>
> So what constitues "freeze" ?
>

It means I see a still frame. The application windows are still there but
don't respond, neither to mouse clicks nor to keyboard events.

You know, some icons get highlighted if you move the mouse over them, but
they don't. Animated GIF's in mozilla stop changing, no text cursor is
blinking anymore etc. The mouse movement is the only thing that still works.
Sometimes the KDE session hat not fully started yet (I still see the KDE
splash screen) when that happens.

I don't know why I can move the mouse pointer while all other things are
frozen.

This is XFree86 4.2.0. As I mentioned I commented out loading the dri module
in /etc/X11/XF86config which allowed me to use KDE as long as I wanted.