Bug#465864: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes the computer on startup

[Brice Goglin]

Jiří Paleček wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:36:35 +0100, Brice Goglin
> <Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:30:22PM +0100, Ji??í Pale??ek wrote:
>>> OK. The bad commit is
>>>
>>> commit f3d2ec3a5ae61215c792018320158750e7aa937c
>>> Author: Alex Deucher <alex at botch2.(none)>
>>> Date:   Tue Dec 11 11:57:27 2007 -0500
>>>
>>>     RADEON: rewrite PLL computation
>>
>> Can you try the patch at
>> http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/debian465864.diff ?
>
> Sorry, I cannot compile it. The revisions that have legacy_crtc.c fail
> with "undefined symbol ATOM_xxx" (among others).

I just did
    apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati -t unstable
    ...
    patch -p1 < ../debian465864.diff
    debuild
and it compiled 6.8.0+patch fine.

Can you send the exact error messages that you got?

Brice