On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:59:20 +0100, Alessandro Suardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:49:05 +0100, Alessandro Suardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dell Latitude C640, PIV @1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, uptodate FC2 > > > > -bk7 (which I currently rebooted in) is okay. > > -bk9 at first try got me to the login prompt, logged in, ran startx... > > frozen with the black background before seeing anything. > > > > Second try hung well before, at the point where it switches the > > radeonfb on. > > > > Only cure is to keep the power button pressed for 10". > > > > Will try building -bk8 (which is currently running on my > > old desktop K7-800) and report... > > -bk8 which I'm now booted in is also OK, so something > broke between -bk8 and -bk9... attached .config and > /var/log/messages from the boot in -bk8 and the one > in -bk9 which succeeded before hanging on startx.
It's definitely the new radeon changes - replacing drivers/video/aty/* and include/video/radeon.h in the -bk9 tree with the ones from -bk8 causes the hang to not reproduce anymore. CC'd Ben and edited subject to more accurately reflect the issue. Thanks, --alessandro "There is no distance that I don't see I do have a will - No limit to my reach" (Wallflowers, "Empire In My Mind") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/