On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 19:57 +0200, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > > I run Linux (Ubuntu) on an old Power Mac with a Radeon card (see > details below). After the update from Ubuntu 9.04 (radeon driver > 6.12.1) to 9.10 (radeon driver 6.12.99), X did not come up any more. > Instead of the X screen, the TFT shows single pixels, sometimes a blue > vertical line, and a greenish shade in some regions of the display. > Switching back to the text console is impossible. The system is still > alive, though; I could reach it via ssh from an other box and reboot.
At that point, was the X server process still alive? Was it hogging the CPU? Please also provide the output of dmesg|grep -e agp -e drm -e radeon when logging in via ssh when the problem occurs. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
