Xorg 7.0 and radeonfb - a no-go?

[Daniel Kasak]

Jens Mayer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> recently I upgraded from the monolithic Xorg 6.8.2 build to Xorg 7.0, running 
> Gentoo GNU/Linux and using it's masked ebuilds.
>
> While Xorg 6.8.2 worked rock solid in combination with the kernel's radeonfb 
> module for framebuffered virtual terminals, 7.0 doesn't - I get hard lockups 
> after a while, sometimes directly after starting X, sometimes a few minutes 
> later. 
>
> Disabling radeonfb or using vesafb-tng solves this problem, but leads to slow 
> or low resolution VTs.

???

Are you using a frame-buffer driver in X? Why?
You should be using the ATI driver. ie in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you 
should have a section:

Section "Device"

In that section somewhere, you should have the line:

Driver "ati"

Dan

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