Lock-ups with Radeon and xorg 6.9

[Alexej Davidov]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:51:10 +0100
Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 20:30 +0100, Alexej Davidov wrote:
> > 
> > since I've upgraded to xorg 6.9, I experience frequent lockups. With
> > DRI enabled, the system locks up when starting xorg (reproducable),
> > with DRI disabled it will lock up at some random time later. The
> > lockup is complete: no net, no sysrq, NMI watchdog doesn't "bite"
> > either. The logs don't schow anything unusual. Nothing in syslog. X
> > log shows that DRI could be enabled (if enabled in xorg.conf).
> > 
> > Computer: IBM Thinkpad T42p
> > Video card: ATI FireGL Mobility T2 (M10) NT
> > Xorg: 6.8.99.901
> 
> Can you try RC2 or a current CVS snapshot? There have been some fixes
> since RC1 that could have an impact. If the problem persists, please
> attach your config and log files to a matching entry at
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org or create a new one if necessary.

Same with RC2. I don't seem to be the only one with this problem:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8904147&forum_id=6511.
No one seems to have an idea what the problem is, though.