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Re: X freeze the system after upgrade



On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:12:39 +0000, T o n g wrote:

>> Try disabling KMS in GRUB and see how it is working
> 
> Hmm... I just took a second look,
> 
> $ grep -i KMS Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log-maroon.vesa Xorg.0.log:(II) [KMS]
> Kernel modesetting enabled. Xorg.0.log:(II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling:
> disabled
> 
> I.e., when using vesa driver, the KMS was not used by X.
> 
> Just FYI.

Yep, yep, disabling KMS works for me. Following,

Disabling Radeon KMS 
http://tomlowshang.blogspot.com/2010/04/disabling-radeon-kms.html

I successfully get it disabled and startx didn't freeze any more. 

However, after I enable gdm GUI booting, it freeze again. 

The only thing I did was,

 update-rc.d gdm defaults

to enable it again (it was removed with "update-rc.d -f gdm remove" 
before), then reboot. 

>From 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel

- KMS is required in order to run X (Gnome, KDE, etc). 
- Since xf86-video-intel 2.10, using KMS is mandatory.

Hope that's only for intel chipset, 'cause I'm using ATI Radeon:

$ lspci | grep Radeon
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
9200 SE] (rev 01)

I'm in dilemma here. What should I do?

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