Xorg 7.0 and radeonfb - a no-go?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 13:08 +0200, 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. Is there something to take care of to have both 
> running simultaneous, or is this not possible at the moment? 
> 
> I'm talking about the open source "radeon" driver with no DRM enabled. Kernel 
> is 2.6.14 with swsusp2 patch 2.2-rc14 running on a Thinkpad T41p (ATI Radeon 
> FireGL T2), most recent BIOS version.

There have been loads of fixes to the radeon driver fixing a number of
cases of lockups among others since 7.0 release... You can get an
updated driver from the ati-1-0-branch in CVS that should build & work
with a 7.0 server

Ben.