On 21 Feb 2003, Michel D�nzer wrote: > On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 01:20, Gary Greene wrote: > > > > On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 4:40 pm, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > > On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 06:23, Gary Greene wrote: > > > > I've got a little problem with XFree's beta release 4.2.99. When I > > > > logout, or whenever the card blanks the screen (in X mode) my Linux > > > > system hangs and refuses to come out of the sinal off status. This > > > > happens only when DRI is enabled. with DRI off the card response > > > > normally. However, there goes my 3D Hardware support at that time:( > > > > > > > > At this time I am forced to "zap" X to log in as another user, or since > > > > I've got X set up as a SysV-styled service, I have to run /etc/init.d/dm > > > > stop then restart it. > > > > > > Does that work even after logging out? Does setting up the display > > > manager to always restart the X server work around the problem in that > > > situation? > > > > It (my system) hangs whenever I try to logout with the dm. > > So have you tried setting your dm up to restart the server on logout? > They only reset it by default. > > > This is the reason that I am forced to either telinit 3 or "zap" X. This > > same or similar issue has been reported on the DRI site by me and others > > using the ATI Radeon (r100) chipset devices. > > The thing is, if zapping the server works, then it can't be something > really bad like a lockup. Maybe the server is running fine, there's > 'just' no display?
I think that I might be seeing the same problem on a Sapphire Radeon 9000 (detected as a RV250 If) - at least I am seeing similar behavior. The only thing that triggers the lock for me is logging out while running a display manager though, at least I haven't seen any other lockups lately. I haven't had time to nail down if I can avoid it (e.g. by disabling DRI) - that's why I haven't written about it earlier - but the computer _really_ seems dead. Doesn't even answer a ping, and a hard reset is the only cure. Nothing shows up in the logs. I'm starting the computer in text mode and starting X with startx for now, that works fine but having a DM running would be nice. I'll try to figure out how to make gdm restart instead of just resetting the X server. (That computer is at home and turned off, won't be there for a few hours so I can't test it for a while yet.) I've tried with 4.2.99.3 and 4.2.99.901 (actually CVS from couple of days after that release), RedHat 8, gcc 3.2, and I have tried both RedHat 2.4.18 kernels and Marcelo's 2.4.21-pre4. I realize that this isn't really enough information to troubleshoot sensibly, but I just wanted to let you know for now that this problem does exist for others too and for later Radeons than the R100 as well. Apart from this problem I think that XFree86 4.3 looks pretty cool! Best regards, Per Bjornsson _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
