Bug#480312: xserver-xorg-video-ati: complete lockup upon x startup [ATI Radeon Mobility IGP320M (U1) 4336]

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Avi Rozen <avi.rozen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
>  Version: 1:6.8.0-1
>  Severity: important
>  Tags: patch
>
>  X server does not start after upgrade to X.Org 7.3 (xserver-xorg-video-ati upgraded from 6.6.3-2 to 6.8.0-1) - the computer completely
>  locks up when first switching from VT (vga=791) to graphical display: caps lock led keeps blinking, no disk activity, no ping.
>
>  I tracked it down with 'git bisect' to the following commit:
>
>  80eee856938756e1222526b6c39cee8b5252b409 is first bad commit
>  commit 80eee856938756e1222526b6c39cee8b5252b409
>  Author: Matthieu Herb <>
>  Date:   Tue Oct 9 16:17:50 2007 -0400
>
>     RADEON: fix console restore on netbsd
>
>       Include the mode restore bugfix from monolithic Xorg, that is derived
>       from the version in xsrc which in turn was provided by Matthieu Herb
>       over 3 years ago on the XFree86 lists. Suggested by various
>       developers, hold-back due to the working state in xorg-server 1.1.1.
>       Tracing down the exact change showed that the changed default color
>       depth made this issue a lot more prominent again. Discussed with Eric
>       Anholt.
>
>  :040000 040000 db9f8db2b0740d5144bb139e72a8dc5f2403ce3f 75a9aa9c3077acdd9ad972fde4cc54a583665864 M      src
>
>  I've attached a patch against 6.8.0-1, that reverts this commit on Linux, and fixes the problem on my end.

Thanks, committed.

Alex