ATI Radeon 7000 and DRI

[Jim Cornette]

xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:

> 
> Modifying the GRUB bootup line to get rid of "rhgb" and substituting 
> "3" (don't know if this is necessary?), gives me a (real fast!) text bootup.  
> Logging into a regular user and then typing startx -- -nolisten tcp pops me 
> into X/KDE no problem; but ONLY if the "load dri" is commented out.  If it is 
> present, then it locks up just like the graphical boot.
> 
> I am going to try the .411 kernel from testing/arjan tonight and see if this 
> fixes anything...  Something weird with how the X server is called from the 
> boot sequence?

The 411 version kernel might not work at all for GUI. There is supposed 
to be a later version out, with the correction of the introduced bug. I 
believe the next kernel number is 419.

Jim

> 
> 
>>http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=707 is the bug report I
>>have added to it. Add more useful data to it if you have it.  I would
>>love to see this fixed.