Re: Running Debian Lenny on PowerMac G5

[Tiresia Giuno <tiresiag@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:47:13 +0100
Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 20:14 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote:
> > 
> > (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 8x
> 
> Does adding either of the following options to the xorg.conf Section
> "Device" work around the video freezes?
> 
> Option "AGPMode" "4"
> Option "DMAForXv" "off"
> Option "BusType" "PCI"
> 
> If none of them do, please try disabling the DRI to work around the
> problem. Unfortunately I don't remember how best to achieve that with
> the X server (driver) in lenny, hopefully someone else can jump in.
> Verify in the Xorg.0.log file that the line:
> 
> > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled
> 
> changes to 'disabled'.

Thanks for your suggestions!!! I let you know.
It can take a while, because I must try while watching a movie
(sometime it happens after few minutes, sometime after an hour)
tiresia