Re: xorg-6.9.0

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 14:13 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> last night I upgraded to xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2. First I had to do a
> ldconfig by hand, because startx was complaining about missing libs.
> 
> Starting X then freezes my PowerBook5,6 completely. No net, no
> console.  So I had to hard reset the machine. I tried the following:
> 
> Recreating a xorg.conf by dpkg-reconfigure -> no success
> 
> Switching from ati(radeon) driver to fbdev -> no success, but no
> freeze.
> 
> Switching from 24 to 16 DefaultDepth + fbdev -> no success, X shows
> the wm splashscreen with an cross cursor similar to the twm one but
> shuts down after a while.
> 
> Installing libgl1-mesa-dri in the hope r300 is used with radeon
> driver -> frozen machine.

Try moving the radeon DRM kernel module out of the way

Ben.