-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 André Wendt wrote: > Hi, > > seems like an xserver-xorg upgrade to 6.9.0 screwed up the radeon driver: > Whenever I log in, I just have to wait between 5 and 20 minutes before X > hangs. Keyboard and mouse input is ignored, nothing works except hard > reboot. I can't seem to be able to use fglrx, since fglrx-driver from > testing AND unstable depend on xserver-xorg << 6.8.99.
flgrx is delivered as only binary and Ati says that this binary driver will only work for 6.8, it is not a constraint from xorg. > > The package lists about a dozen bug reports related to this problem, but > no real solution. > > I considered downgrading to xserver-xorg 6.8.2, but this doesn't work as > packages.d.o is down and aptitude tells me it cannot find version 6.8.2... > I found that the xorg 6.8 locked my system (desktop) so I had to upgrde to 6.9 and no problems now with a Radeon X600. Are you using composite? I would advise to put it off in case of problems. And in case of more problems I would disable all accelarations just to try to debug the problem Option "NoAccel" in the xorg.conf. > For me, the only way out of this dilemma is using the vesa driver which > obviously doesn't support a resolution higher than 1024x768 (and believe > me, this is not funny when working with Eclipse!). FYI, I use 1280x1024. > > So, I wondered if anyone would be willing to share his/her .deb of > xserver-xorg version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 by hosting it and sending the link? > (Or just telling me where to download it. I feel like I searched > everywhere.) > As I told you before I wouldn't use 6.8 for this card. > Thanks, > André > > - -- Raúl Sánchez Siles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD98jySbRPhLCoLYYRAmKZAJ9Mz2OGUHRzHv5iKeeXa3MK1fPZOgCbBNN3 fuWcf0heiPxUnX9xMhHHusk= =araT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
