On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote: > > I am currently happily running Xorg 7.5 on Linux kernel 2.6.35.8 . If > I upgrade the kernel to 2.6.36 the screen goes black (even with the > -retro argument) and the system locks up. Ctrl-Alt-F<n> and > Ctrl-Alt-Del do nothing, but Alt-SysRq-r followed by Ctrl-Alt-Del > reboots cleanly. > > Any ideas? I am attaching before/after logs. I created each one in > the same way: reboot, log in as root, run "Xorg -retro", Alt-SysRq-r, > Ctrl-Alt-Del, reboot again and save a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log . > Apart from changes of memory addresses, timestamps etc., the new log > is just an initial segment of the old, suggesting that Xorg just stops > completely while initialising. > > Thanks in advance for any help.
Do you have kms enabled in your kernel config? Try booting with radeon.modeset=0 on the kernel command line or make sure the radeon drm is loaded before starting X. Alex > > Regards, > > Jeremy Henty > > > System details: > > uname -a > Linux omphalos 2.6.35.8-0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 31 20:23:43 GMT 2010 i686 > athlon-4 i386 GNU/Linux > > gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.4.1 > > Xorg: xorg-server-1.7.1 > driver: xf86-video-ati-6.12.4 > libdrm: libdrm-2.4.14 > > Graphics card: ATI Radeon 9250 PCI > > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: alexdeuc...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com