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Re: cannot start x - ThinkPad T42
by Carlos Moffat-3
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Hi,
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:52 +0100, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:54 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > What driver are you using? The radeon driver is broken right now in
> > Debian (and, I think, all distros using Xorg 6.9) so I'm using vesa
> > instead.
>
> I've read lots of hints toward radeon being broken in Debian, but I'm
> happily using xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 right now without any problems
> (well, apart from the EmulateWheelClick not working after it worked in
> the experimental pre-releases, I just hope the patch from
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5071 makes it into Debian
> soon, and dual-head seems broken).
>
> What exactly is the problem? Too many bugreports on xserver-xorg, any
> specific one? Or is it DRI-related? (no DRI for me atm with the
> PCI-Express card)
>Well, the problem was I was getting a hard freeze shortly after login to
X11. After your message, I tried the radeon driver again (I hadn't,
since they haven't touched the radeon driver since the upgrade to 6.9)
and presto, it is working!! (at least for the last hour or so). I have
glx and DRI loaded, but I've simplified my Device section to look like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
# enable PowerPlay features
Option "DynamicClocks" "on"
# use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7)
Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
EndSection
If I don't get a lockup soon, I'll try to turn some other options on
until I can find the problem and I'll report back.
Cheers
Carlos
> Regards
> WK
> --
> http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p
>
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:52 +0100, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:54 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > What driver are you using? The radeon driver is broken right now in
> > Debian (and, I think, all distros using Xorg 6.9) so I'm using vesa
> > instead.
>
> I've read lots of hints toward radeon being broken in Debian, but I'm
> happily using xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 right now without any problems
> (well, apart from the EmulateWheelClick not working after it worked in
> the experimental pre-releases, I just hope the patch from
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5071 makes it into Debian
> soon, and dual-head seems broken).
>
> What exactly is the problem? Too many bugreports on xserver-xorg, any
> specific one? Or is it DRI-related? (no DRI for me atm with the
> PCI-Express card)
>
X11. After your message, I tried the radeon driver again (I hadn't,
since they haven't touched the radeon driver since the upgrade to 6.9)
and presto, it is working!! (at least for the last hour or so). I have
glx and DRI loaded, but I've simplified my Device section to look like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
# enable PowerPlay features
Option "DynamicClocks" "on"
# use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7)
Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
EndSection
If I don't get a lockup soon, I'll try to turn some other options on
until I can find the problem and I'll report back.
Cheers
Carlos
> Regards
> WK
> --
> http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p
>
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