ATI Radeon 7000 and DRI

[xyzzy at hotpop.com]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 06:47, Alan wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 19:11, Fred Nastos wrote:
> > On May 31, 2004 02:34 pm, Alan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 04:10, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > > Alan wrote:
> > > > > I have a Radeon 7000 card on an Athlon system with a SiS
> > > > > motherboard.
> > > > >
> > > > > I installed Fedora Core 2 on it.  X worked all through the install.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I rebooted the system, the screen goes black and the system
> > > > > hangs. (Or at least X goes into a state I cannot get out of without
> > > > > a hard reboot.)
> > > >
> > > > Can't you get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?
> > >
> > > Nope.  X goes into an unusable state.
> >
> > Just to confirm this, I have three systems with ATI Radeon 7000 64MB
> > AGP.  Two of them sit on an ASUS P4S800D-E and I was having
> > the same problem mentioned above.  Commenting out the dri command
> > in xorg.conf solved it.  The other system though, is an Athlon64 on a K8V
> > board, and there X works fine (i.e. I don't need comment out the Load
> > "dri" command.
>
> This one is on a ASRock K7S41GX motherboard with a SiS 741GX chipset.

I am running with the Intel 865 chipset and am seeing this... I downloaded, 
built and installed the 2.6.6-1.383 (? forgot the exact number, last one 
before 403).

If I allow to go through the rhgb bootup, I get the X server and the graphical 
boot screen, but then just when it is about to start the real X server after 
the kernel has booted all the way, it hard hangs.

Commenting out the "load dri" in xorg.conf has no effect.  See next paragraph.

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?

>
> 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.
>
>
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