Oliver Feiler wrote:
> On Saturday 06 July 2002 23:11, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>
>>Jens Owen wrote:
>>
>>>Oliver Feiler wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Saturday 06 July 2002 17:36, Oliver Feiler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Friday 05 July 2002 13:04, Jos� Fonseca wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Keith Whitwell confirmed the readiness of the r200-0-1-branch for
>>>>>>testing and for binary snapshots.
>>>>>>
>>>>>Just tested this driver on a system with original ATI 8500 card.
>>>>>
>>>>>With the binary snaphots and with the r200 branch compiled myself the
>>>>>system crashes immediately when X is started. With DRI disabled X
>>>>>comes up
>>>>>and runs without problems.
>>>>>
>>>Oliver,
>>>
>>>If you have the room for a fully debuggable X Server, try adding this
>>>patch before you build the X Server.
>>>
>>>Then login remotely and run gdb xc/programs/Xserver/XFree86 as root.
>>>
>>>If you can case the crash like that, post the backtrace to the list.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Jens
>>>
>>This works if it is a crash, but not if it is a lockup where the system
>>freezes overall -- I don't know which Oliver is experiencing...
>>
>
> I will try that later (or tomorrow) when I have access to that computer again.
> Unfortunately it's not mine. :)
>
> All I can say about this crash now is that the system just locks up. The
> screen goes black and that's it. I cannot ping the system anymore. I will
> still try what Jens suggested, maybe I can get some useful information.
As Keith said, this won't help much if your system is hanging. You can
carefully crawl up to the edge of the cliff, but you don't know where
the edge is :-) Each time you fall, you need to reboot and possibly
fsck depending on your file system.
Perhaps it's better for you to wait until the driver is more stable.
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