Hi: I hope I didn't start a war (looking at the previous responses). Let me correct myself. The cvs I used is from the dri repository. The changes I made are from the dri FAQ (http://dri.sourceforge.net/faq/faq_display.phtml?id=42).
I am using the Option "ForcePCIMode". If I don't the xserver terminates when it finds agp but no Radeon card there. As I stated. The xserver and all apps do work fine and the system appears quite stable as long as I ONLY use startx to bring up x. I'll do a search later on C. Brewer and see what I come up with. Thanks so far. Dale -----Original Message----- From: Schultz, Dale C. Sent: January 14, 2003 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [XFree86] System crashes when initdefault=5 Hi: I've been struggling with this for about a month now and thought someone could help me out. I have an AOpen motherboard with built-in AGP graphic chip. To get better 3D performance I installed and ATI Radeon 7000 PCI adapter. The default Radeon driver does not support direct rendering to PCI cards. So I used a hack to enable PCI and recompiled my complete xserver from cvs. All worked great until I rebooted my system with it still set to initdefault 5 in the inittab file. The system comes almost all the way up but when the screen switches from text mode to graphics mode the system hangs. The reset button is the only thing that can get it going again. The strange part is that if I set inittab to initdefault 3 and use the startx command all works fine. The biggest problem (not for me) is the login. When my kids boot up the system and don't see the graphical login screen they panic and shut the machine off (just about as bad as a crash). I've checked the Xfree86.log file and it ends abruptly when the system hangs around the area when the drm extensions(?) are being initialized. If I disable drm in the XF config file the system doesn't hang, but of course the 3D performance sucks, just ask Tuxracer... Any suggestions, other than the obvious...don't init 5 and teach the kids how to use a 'real' Linux system with a text console... Could there be a prexdm or xdm problem? Thanks. Dale _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
