On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 21:50 +0100, Nils Nordman wrote: > > > Also, can you try narrowing down the problem to a single XAA > > acceleration primitive using the XaaNo... options documented in the > > XF86Config-4 manpage? > > With little success I'm afraid. I tried enabling the acceleration again > along with specifying all the XaaNo* options. This only helped somewhat > in that the system didn't lock up, and you could actually see the > desktop contents "behind" all the garbage just well enough that it was > possible to do some basic operations (e.g. shut it down). Back in the > shell again it had turned text-mode into complete garbage as well.
Weird. Did you verify that no acceleration primitives were listed after (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) ? > Some cursory testing revealed that more than one acceleration primitive > was able to cause the lockup (i.e. lockup occurred after commenting out > different groups of XaaNo options). Hmm, such stability issues with the acceleration code are quite unusual. I assume the card works with another OS? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
