On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:17 AM, simion ploscariu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, i have the following problem: my video card is ' ATI Technologies Inc > RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]' and it worked fine with catalyst driver until > ATI stopped supporting this card and i now have to use the xf86-video-ati > driver. The current performance of the open source driver is good for me but > i get hangs at boot time and hangs when trying to resume from sleep. Sleep > is important for a laptop but booting is a top priority, i get a rate of > succes of 2 in 3 tries (i can't sleep to prevent booting) so i have often to > fix my HDD from errors from hard rebooting. I found no fix/work around so > the last solution is to get involved in this, i have c/c++ knowledge but > driver development is hard(i believe it is i never tried it). But maybe i > can help testing patches or running debugging versions of the driver oand > test programs to help the developers. > Hope i can help to fix this bug. > P.S. I will write code if is needed and i can do it.
Can you try xf86-video-ati from git master or the 6.12-branch? Matthias recently fixed an issue with hangs on rs4xx chips like yours. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
