Re: Lockup on x server startup with xorg 6.9 on Radeon (R100)

[David N. <dav...@ve...>]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:07:47PM +1030, Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:40:11AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > It probably needs Ben's mem patch.  PCI cards were the most prone to
> > problems without it IIRC.  I think you can comment out the
> > busmastering lines (reg RADEON_BUS_CNTL) in RADEONSetFBLocation() as a
> > quick hack, it may help.  It really need the full patch.
> 
> I guessed you were talking about the patch from this email:
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-December/011679.html
> 
> I rebuilt the xserver-xorg and xserver-common Debian packages with
> this patch applied and it does seem to have fixed the startup
> problems. Successful five times in a row so far. It also seems to have
> fixed the VT switch problems.
> 
> I also tried out the patch on my desktop which has an R100 QD (7200)
> and it seems fine there as well.
> 
> I'll keep an eye out for future versions of the patch for further
> testing.

Awesome. Would you mind putting the info that this patch fixed your problem
in the Debian bug? I'm looking to add the patch to the packages when Ben
says it's ready.

 - David Nusinow