graphics corruption/hardlock with Radeon Mobility 9600

[Pedro R]

Thanks Alex, I set DRI to False and AGPMode to 1 and it worked.

There is another guy with exactly the same problem.
I'll try to find out what is exactly that is causing the problem (either the DRI or the AGPMode). Do you know to whom i should talk to after i'm certain of what causes it?


--- On Mon, 5/1/09, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: graphics corruption/hardlock with Radeon Mobility 9600
> To: eusou15 at yahoo.com
> Cc: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
> Date: Monday, 5 January, 2009, 8:52 PM
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Pedro R
> <eusou15 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > i've been having major problems with any version
> of Xorg above 7.2. I had openSUSE 10.3 running on my system
> for a year and a half when i decided to upgrade to 11.1.
> After upgrading, gdm hardlocks and show corrupted graphics.
> So i decided to try various distributions: ZenWalk, gentoo,
> fedora, debian lenny, etc. The same happens in all of them:
> at first boot into gdm, it locks up completely - ctrl + alt
> + del, ctrl + fX, even quickly pressing and depressing the
> power button doesn't work.
> >
> > Only openSUSE 10.3 (xorg 7.2) and Debian etch (7.1)
> work flawlessly. I've pinned down this problem to either
> a xorg, xorg-radeon or gdm bug, since Windows runs fine with
> 3D acceleration.
> >
> > Any ideas? I'm desperate. Never thought Windows
> would run on a machine where Linux doesn't!
> 
> It's probably AGP related.  Does adding this option to
> the device
> section of your xorg.conf help?
> 
> Option "AGPMode" "x"
> 
> Where x = 1 or 2 or 4 or 8.
> 
> Some chipset/GPU combinations only work in certain modes. 
> If none of
> those work, try:
> Option "BusType" "PCI"
> 
> Alex