Bug#374986: xserver-xorg-video-ati: [2.6.17/radeon] Xserver and console dead, rt_sigaction looping, not killable
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 15:44 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.5.8.0-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> my Radeon X800GTO,PCIe card does not work with kernel 2.6.17 anymore.
> With 2.6.16 there was no such problem. Now the driver gets up and in the
> moment where it usualy changes the resolution the monitor goes off and
> the console seems to be dead. Keyboard does not react, not even magic
> sys-rq does work. I can login from remote but I cannot kill X any more.
> It hangs and eats 99% CPU power (displayed by top).
If this is with the DRI enabled, does it also happen with it disabled?
Please attach full X config and log files corresponding to the problem.
> Unfortunately the VESA driver shows similar symptoms (it has failed
> already with 2.6.16), however I have not straced it yet. I believe that
> VESA has been working with Xorg 6.8 or 6.9 and kernel versions from
> those days.
That would be a separate bug then.
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