HP Pavilion / ATI 200M Random Crashes - was: [Suspend bug]

[oleksandr korneta]

on 02/03/2007 11:14 AM Ken Nordquist wrote:
> I may have stumbled on the solution through blind luck.  First, via my 
> local LUG, I was given the xorg.conf (listed below) to use.  The author 
> who turned me on to this used ATI's newest proprietary driver, but I am 
> using the radeon driver included with xorg.  He mentioned that he found 
> two areas which are "must haves" in the xorg.conf.  They are:
> 
>     SubSection "extmod"
>         Option        "omit xfree86-dga"
>     EndSubSection
> 
> and
> 
>     Option        "MaxGARTSize" "128"


I have added this stuff to my xorg.conf

> 
> He also mentioned that turning off the video shared memory in the bios 
> is critical as well.
Not sure what you mean by that so I didn't touch it.
> 
> Well, I did all that and viola!  I *still* had random crashes...  
> needless to say I was very disappointed.
> 
> I also have been having problems with my wireless randomly dropping the 
> signal and not (easily) connecting and reconnecting... so I started to 
> research that problem.  I will preface my solution by mentioning that I 
> use ndiswrapper and I typically use the most current ndiswrapper source 
> to build rpm's (I am currently using v1.34).  I "assumed" the problem 
> was the driver and looked for a "new and improved" AirForce One driver.  
> I discovered there was a new driver which fixed a security problem and 
> tried it...  *Still* no luck...   After searching the ndiswrapper site, 
> I discovered another AirForce One driver and tried it...
I didnt have any random disconnects, although I was using the same 
driver with ndiswrapper that proved to be working under FC4 (dated of 
2005). Nevertheless I followed your advice and switched to the driver 
from tp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe

> 
> *And it worked!*  My wireless connects easily and does not randomly drop 
> connections.
> 
> And guess what...  now my HP Pavilion with the ATI 200M is *not* 
> randomly crashing...
unfortunately I still observe random crashes. More than that, after I 
made the changes to my xorg, the backlight on laptop screen does not go 
off, although I have DPMS enabled. Mere that that, If I force the screen 
   to turn off by doing

xset -display :0 dpms force off

it stays off for couple seconds and then goes back on. Any suggestions?

I in order to narrow the possible factors I have disabled the wireless 
and decided to use wired connection for couple days, fortunately I don't 
have to carry that laptop around these days. Lets see what difference it 
makes.

Here is my xorg.conf if anyone is willing to help me with dpms

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
     Load  "dbe"
     Load  "extmod"
     Load  "ddc"
     Load  "freetype"
     Load  "type1"
     Load  "synaptics"
     Load  "dri"
     Load  "drm"
     Load  "glx"
     SubSection "extmod"
         Option        "omit xfree86-dga"
     EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Synaptics"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "radeon"
# acceleration
         Option      "AGPMode" "4"
         Option      "RenderAccel" "on"
	Option      "MaxGARTSize" "128"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier "InternalLCD"
         Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor "InternalLCD"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "dri"
	Group   0
         Mode    0666
EndSection

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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