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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:08:15 -0500
From:      Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
To:        "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@ksu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SOLVED Xorg hangs with radeon driver
Message-ID:  <20071129040815.e8679d52.adamk@voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <474D30E7.8060403@ksu.ru>
References:  <27dbfc8c0711240418t5e5ddfc3pe16cf20b1bab6430@mail.gmail.com> <474D30E7.8060403@ksu.ru>

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There is a patch or two floating around the archives of this mailing
list (which I think has been merged into the DRM tree at
freedesktop.org) which gets AIGLX working properly on ATI hardware.

Adam

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:12:07 +0300
"Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@ksu.ru> wrote:

> Valerio Daelli wrote:
> > On Nov 24, 2007 10:31 AM, Valerio Daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have a laptop, an Acer TravelMate 2500 with a graphic card ATI
> >> Radeon RS300. I use 7.0-BETA3.
> >> If I generate an xorg.conf with 'Xorg -configure', th generated
> >> xorg.conf uses the radeon driver. If I try it with 'Xorg -config
> >> xorg.conf' (or with 'startx') the laptop hangs with a black
> >> screen, I am unable to get a dump or to switch to DDB.
> >> If I use the driver 'ati' I am able to get X working, but:
> >> 1-If I use the VideoRam in the card section the laptop hangs
> >> 2-If I specify a DefaultDepth of 16 or 24 it hangs
> >> I tried to disable the AIGLX option, but it does not work.
> >> So I am able to use only an 'ati' driver with DefaultDepth of 8
> >> and no VideoRam.
> > 
> > Hi
> > Now thanks to Steve Roome I solved the problem.
> > I had to put
> > 
> >  Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, NONE"
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > Option "DRI" "off"
> >
> 
> this makes my laptop completely useless at all, `cause of very slow
> video output. I prefer the following solution
> 
> echo 'WITHOUT_AIGLX=yes'>>/etc/make.conf
> cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
> make install clean
> 
> and it works just fine on my radeon x700m
> 
> > in the xorg.conf file and I have the desired color depth.
> > Sorry for the noise
> > 
> > Valerio Daelli
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> > 
> 



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