retitle 282189 xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] lockup at server start on RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] tag 282189 + moreinfo upstream thanks I'm sorry it has taken a while to get back to your report. On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:31:23PM +0100, Nils Nordman wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > Severity: important > > After doing a dist-upgrade of sid at Nov 18, 2004, X no longer works > with Radeon 9600. The last dist-upgrade before this was performed > on Oct 29. There have been no changes in the X configuration that > could have accounted for the breakage. Did you perhaps upgrade your kernel? xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 hit sid about 28 September, quite a while before your dist-upgrade on 29 October. > Symptoms: > > After startx, the computer locks up hard - it's not possible to shut > Down X with C-A-Backspace, C-A-Delete have no effect and it's also > not possible to switch to a virtual console. The computer has to be > restarted using the reset or power button. > > There is unfortunately no information about the error to be found as > far as I can see (it doesn't even create a /var/log/XFree86.log.0). > Similarily, there appears to be no specific messages regarding this > in the syslog. > > Using the VESA driver, everything works as expected (albeit slowly). > I tried booting into my previous kernel (2.6.6-4-k8) to see if that > had anything to do with it, but with no luck. Very odd. Does the debugging X server, in the package xserver-xfree86-dbg, work? Failing that, can you install strace, log in remotely, and launch the X server (as root) from strace? Hopefully we'd get some sort of idea what system call is being issued shortly before the lockup. And by logging in remotely you should be able to capture the strace output. -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux | venerable because they are more branden@debian.org | fruitful than the truths of little http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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