Lock-ups with Radeon and xorg 6.9

[Alexej Davidov]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:04:05 +0100
Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/17/05, Alexej Davidov <alexej.davidov at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > Same with RC2. I don't seem to be the only one with this problem:
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8904147&forum_id=6511.
> > No one seems to have an idea what the problem is, though.
> 
> We think that we didn't initialize or setup properly one things
> in the card. So if you first run fglrx, fglrx will setup properly
> the card and then any latter use of r300 should work without
> any lockup.
> 
> So if you could try to run fglrx first, then r300 driver and report
> the result here. If lockup disappear then it's likely that you are
> facing an issue similar to the lockup of radeon 9800...
> 
> Jerome
> 
Sorry, no luck. I couldn't get the fglrx driver to work with DRI. This
is not the first time I tried to set up this driver - never managed to
get it work. ATI just sucks big time. That's why I was eager to try out
xorg 6.9 with some hw accel for radeon.