Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:41:28PM +0100, Mario Frasca wrote:
> On 2007-1111 12:31:43, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Any news about this? It would be good to test 6.7.195 from experimental
> > since this is where all the work is being done upstream nowadays.
> 
> tried...
> 
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  xserver-xorg-v 1:6.7.195-2    X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
> 
> but it shows the same behaviour.

Maybe adding
	Option "BusType" "PCI"
or
	Option "AGPMode" "1"
to the Device section of xorg.conf could help?

(xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.197 entered unstable yesterday)

Brice