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Re: Xorg 7.0 on a powerbook



On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 23:23 +0200, Børge Holen wrote:
> On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:10, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I upgrade my pb PowerBook5,6 to xorg 7.0. Running X with  the radeon/ati
> > driver freezes the machine. No console, no ssh -> hardreset :(
> 
> both 6.9 and 7.0 have this problem, and while this seems quite serious, a fix 
> has yet to enter the debian archive. that be both testing and unstable.
> you could be luck to have the 6.8.2 version at hand. Or be stuck with old 
> Xfree86 4.3 like me

It's been fixed in the upstream X.org CVS, there's an ati-1-0-branch for
the driver to use on 7.0 and the fixed driver will be in 7.1

Ben.




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