i want to help

[Rafał Miłecki]

2009/12/23 simion ploscariu <simion314 at gmail.com>:
> Hi, i have the following problem: my video card is ' ATI Technologies Inc
> RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]' and it worked fine with catalyst driver until
> ATI stopped supporting this card and i now have to use the xf86-video-ati
> driver. The current performance of the open source driver is good for me but
> i get hangs at boot time and hangs when trying to resume from sleep. Sleep
> is important for a laptop but booting is a top priority, i get a rate of
> succes of 2 in 3 tries (i can't sleep to prevent booting) so i have often to
> fix my HDD from errors from hard rebooting. I found no fix/work around so
> the last solution is to get involved in this, i have c/c++ knowledge but
> driver development is hard(i believe it is i never tried it). But maybe i
> can help testing patches or running debugging versions of the driver oand
> test programs to help the developers.
> Hope i can help to fix this bug.
> P.S. I will write code if is needed and i can do it.

Generally finding issues and designing is what eats most of time :)

We need some more info from you.

First of all is that hang really related to xf86-video-ati (radeon DDX
driver)? Can you change default init to 3 (vim /etc/inittab) and check
if machine boots fine every time? Or maybe it's "radeon" kernel module
that causes your hang?

Can you ssh from other machine to your hanged machine?

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Rafał