Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boris Samorodov wrote: >> The most convenient way to freeze the OS is to finish gnome session. >> When gdm is reloading the whole mashine freezes at gnome greeter. >> The mouse cursor freezes while being a clock-buzzer. Ctrl-alt-del >> doesn't help, only reset does. >> >> > Does disabling DRI in xorg.conf fixes the problem ? >> >> Didn't try, but may do if it may help. > > This is a well known problem, with radeon cards on machines with Via > chipsets. The freeze occurs under FreeBSD, Linux and even Windows, > most easily with DRI but sometimes without DRI. The only solution i have > found is to exchange the video card on the machine with a Via chipset to > an nVidia card, and put the Radeon on a machine with an Intel chipset. > Now i have zero problem, including with DRI. The radeon card now drives > a beautiful 1920x1200 screen without any problem, and gives a very good > display quality.
I have an ASUS P5K motherboard with Intel P35/ICH9 chipset together with the radeon card. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
