ATI Radeon driver 6.7.197 regression on IGP chipsets

[Alex Deucher]

On Feb 10, 2008 12:37 PM, Frederik Himpe <fhimpe at telenet.be> wrote:
> I have a machine with an ATI IGP 340M chipset, and since the 6.7.197
> version, X hangs completely at startup in a loop if I don't set AGPMode 4
> in Xorg.0.log. Looking at Debian's ati package changelog, this regression
> has been fixed in git. Can somebody point me to a patch or something? Is
> 6.7.198 with this fix expected soon?

You can follow the latest ati driver changes here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/
I recently reverted the default AGPMode back to whatever the bios sets
up.  Unfortunately, AGP is a bit of a mess in general and it's hard to
know what modes work reliably on what card/MB combinations.  It seems
like leaving things as set up by the bios is the most reliable at the
moment.

I hoping to make a new ati release soon.

Alex