i want to help

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:17 AM, simion ploscariu <simion314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Can you try xf86-video-ati from git master or the 6.12-branch?
Matthias recently fixed an issue with hangs on rs4xx chips like yours.

Alex