On Don, 2002-12-26 at 02:26, Fabrice Medio wrote: > > I have an very recent iBook2 here, with the following installed : > - 2.4.20 + latest benh kernel patches ; > - latest drm-trunk modules ; > - latest xserver from drm trunk. > > /proc/pci says the video card is : > Bus 0, device 16, function 0: > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW > (rev 0). > > My XF86Config-4 states the following (amongst other stuff) : > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > Load "dri" > Load "freetype" > Load "type1" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "TiBook Internal Video" > Driver "radeon" > Option "UseFBDev" > Option "DRIReinit" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Group "dri" > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > When X is launched, the screen just stays blank (i.e, black). When I > ssh the iBook from another machine, 'top' says X takes 99.9% of CPU > cycles. Killing -9 the 'X' process halts it, but the screen doesn't > return to console state, and remains black instead.
Those symptoms could be caused by using the wrong radeon_drv.o . If you can't see a problem with that, we'll need to see your full config file and server log, maybe also kernel output etc. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
