Re: 2.6.11-rc5

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:36 +0100, Mws wrote:
> hi benjamin
> 
> now i had some spare time to do some investigation
> 
> booting the 2.6.11-rc5 with radeonfb.default_dynclk=0 or with -1
> brings up a framebuffer console. everything is fine.
> starting xorg-x11 with Ati binary only drivers just brings up a black screen
> without a mouse cursor and freezes the hole machine. even network ect. 
> is no more reachable from outside the machine. worst thing out of that
> a tail on the log files (on another machine) does immediately stop - also no 
> output is written to syslog :/
> 
> next scenario - test 2.6.11-rc5 with radeonfb.default_dynclock=0 and -1
> starting xorg-x11 with Xorg Radeon driver. 
> a grey screen comes up - mouse cursor is visible and also able to move for
> 5 - 8 seconds after screen display - then freezes the whole machine again.

Ok, so it's not dynamic clocks. At this point, i have no idea what's
going on. I don't yet have any access to PCI Express hardware. You
should report this to X.org list where others can try to help me track
this down.

Ben.