From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [207.7.145.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D9167A33 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:36:59 +1000 (EST) From: "Brian D. Carlstrom" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17459.11188.362959.630416@zot.electricrain.com> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:30:12 -0700 To: "Yang Dehua" Subject: xorg-7.0 freezes on gentoo ppc64 linux with 9800 card In-Reply-To: <004301c65843$d561d710$6500a8c0@yangdh> References: <004301c65843$d561d710$6500a8c0@yangdh> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Reply-To: "Brian D. Carlstrom" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Yang Dehua writes: > I just bought a mac 9800xt card to replace my 9600pro on my G5 > running gentoo ppc64 linux(2006.0, 64-bit userland). The system > worked fine until I started xorg-7.0: the screen blacked and the > keyboard and mouse were not responding any more, so I had to shutdown > the machine. The same X config worked well with 9600pro card(64M). I ran into this and posted a workaround about it here for fedora: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2006-March/000816.html I based this workaround based on the Ubuntu discussion here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/30426 Basically, Benjamin Herrenschmidt recommends "building the ati driver from X.org ati-1-0-branch CVS branch". With that, I'm working in X happily. I'll note that an alternative before that was to use the "fbdev" driver instead of the "radeon". -bri