Re: New Radeonfb (2.6.5) driver does not play nice with X (4.3.0)

[Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>]

James Lamanna wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
>  > Are you using ATI's proprietary drivers? I have also experienced this
>  > sort of system hang when using their drivers. When I would exit the X
>  > server, I would get a screen full of vertical lines and the system
>  > would be completely dead (could not ping).
> 
>  > The short-term solutions are either to use the XFree's native drivers
>  > or to use vesafb for the console. The long term solution is for ATI to
>  > fix their drivers.
> 
> Well I did try with Driver "vga" (I had been using the ATI proprietary
> ones), and it still exhibited the same behavior.
>     

Someone told me that they found the ATI driver to get along fine with 
the VESA framebuffer driver, but I never tried it.  Since I have a 9000, 
enough of its features are supported by Mesa that I don't care, so I 
switched back.

Also, I have used ATI's drivers with Red Hat 9, and since Red Hat always 
just uses the VGA text console, it was never a problem.

Have you tried the plain 80x25 CGA/EGA/VGA character mode with the ATI 
drivers?  Don't use a graphical console driver at all and see what happens.

ATI won't help you if you contact them, but there may be some value in 
you contacting them with a report of the problem.  I did that.  If they 
get enough complaints, maybe they'll deal with it.

I suspect there is a conflict between X and radeonfb both trying to 
access the drawing engine at the same time.