Bug#282189: Re: Re: Bug#282189: xserver-xfree86: Locks up computer upon start with Radeon 9600.
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 21:50 +0100, Nils Nordman wrote:
>
> > Also, can you try narrowing down the problem to a single XAA
> > acceleration primitive using the XaaNo... options documented in the
> > XF86Config-4 manpage?
>
> With little success I'm afraid. I tried enabling the acceleration again
> along with specifying all the XaaNo* options. This only helped somewhat
> in that the system didn't lock up, and you could actually see the
> desktop contents "behind" all the garbage just well enough that it was
> possible to do some basic operations (e.g. shut it down). Back in the
> shell again it had turned text-mode into complete garbage as well.
Weird. Did you verify that no acceleration primitives were listed after
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
?
> Some cursory testing revealed that more than one acceleration primitive
> was able to cause the lockup (i.e. lockup occurred after commenting out
> different groups of XaaNo options).
Hmm, such stability issues with the acceleration code are quite unusual.
I assume the card works with another OS?
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