Re: xorg-6.9.0

[Ben Racher <bracher@iupui.edu>]

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.
>
> Are there significant changes from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 which I have
> overseen?
>
> Elimar
>
>  
I'm experiencing similar freezing on my powerbook 5,4 with ATI mobility 
radio 9600, after upgrading to 6.9.0 Have you figured out what's wrong 
at all? Could you point to any links, is it the ATI driver? I finally 
just downgraded back down to 6.8.2 after fiddling with it forever... 
jeez, what a waste of time for me. Thanks.

Ben