How to debug Xorg startup hangs (ATI Radeon 9550)

[Stefan Schwandter]

Hi Jerome ,


I've attached the files. Thanks for the pointer!


regards, Stefan

2006/10/26, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com>:
> On 10/26/06, Stefan Schwandter <schwandter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I'm a bit frustrated, because X often hangs on startup - not every
> > time, but nearly half of the time. I've tried various combinations of
> > 16bit/24bit color depth, dri enabled/disabled.
> >
> > X startup looks like the following on my system: my LCD goes black,
> > and shows "digital" - it detects a signal at the digital input port.
> > Then a few seconds pass, and if I'm lucky, "digital" appears again and
> > then the desktop. If I have bad look, it doesn't...
> >
> > I have Fedora Core 6 - but the problem has been around for a long
> > time, also in Fedora Core 5. I have a Radeon 9550 card, detected as
> > "Chipset ATI Radeon 9600 AS (AGP)".
> >
> > I would really like to help debug this problem - please tell me how.
> >
> >
> > regards, Stefan
>
> Please provide more information like your xorg.conf and
> an xorg.log from a crashing x launch. Debugging such issue
> is far from being easy. Maybe this can get you started:
>
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/DebuggingTheXserver
>
> best,
> Jerome Glisse
>
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