Xorg 7.0 and radeonfb - a no-go?

Mon Mar 27 14:27:54 PST 2006

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:08 -0600, Otto Solares wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:53:29PM +0200, David Gómez wrote:
> > No, that doesn't fix it (except if it has been fixed three o four days
> > ago in CVS), because as i already told in another message, i had a lot
> > of "idle timeout" messages and redrawing problems with the radeon
> > driver (with XOrg/ati cvs HEAD), without DRI enabled. What solved the
> > problem was disabling the radeonfb in the kernel. Currently enabling
> > radeonfb and using at the same time the radeon Xorg driver with DRI
> > disabled is not possible.
> 
> For me radeonfb + radeon xorg works nicely.  I used to have
> hard lockups when using 'xvinfo' and at random times.  Current
> cvs fixes all my problems except EXA _always_ lead to hard
> lockups (which I tried from time to time) and when attaching a
> seconday monitor the xorg driver thinks the Max Res. is 640x480
> (which is workarounded using 'Option "UseFBDev" "True"').

Both are problems that should be looked at ... Can you open 2 bugzilla
entries and provide all hardware details, logs etc... ? CC me on both
entries.

Ben.