Bug#943664: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Same behaviour on Thinkpad T41

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2019-10-31 8:36 p.m., Petra R.-P. wrote:
> Am Do., 31. Okt. 2019, um 18:01 +0100 schrieb Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
>> On 2019-10-30 2:15 p.m., Petra R.-P. wrote:
> 
>> This happens when HW acceleration is disabled. If you can't or don't
>> want to enable HW acceleration,
>  I can't because I don't know how to do this.
>> I recommend using the Xorg modesetting
>> driver for the time being, by either uninstalling
>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon or explicitly setting the driver in
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, see below. Without HW acceleration, the radeon
>> driver doesn't really provide much if any benefit over modesetting.
>>
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>
>>         Identifier "whateveryoulike"
>>
>>         Driver  "modesetting"
>>
>> EndSection
> 
>  I tried both variants without success.
> 
>  Both resulted in something like
> 
>      Server terminated with error (1).
>      xinit: giving up
>      xinit: unable to connect to X server: Conncection refused
>      xinit: server error

We'd again need to see the corresponding Xorg log file.


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