On 16:57, martedì 18 giugno 2002, you wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 14:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >Hi all. I've installed xfree4.2.0 on my pismo. > > >- Recompiled the last benh kernel (2.4.29-pre10). > > >- Starting X with my old XF86Config-4 freezes the machine. > > When exactly? What happens?
The machine completely freezes after 3-4 seconds X started. On the screen appear, on the bottom half, the gray X background. If I CTRL+ALT+BS within 3-4 seconds I can shutdown X. But after this time the machine freezes completely. (I can't even ping it) > > > >- Reading the log it looks like everything works fine. > > >- With xfree-4.1.0-17 (sid) it worked perfectly. > > >- Removing GLcore, dri, glx, pex5 and xie X works (but with lower > > > quality). > > Probably only dri is relevant for this problem. I'll try and then I'll post the results What sounds strange is that the log do not complain on anything. And from a log point of view dri works perfectly. > > > >Any idea? I've attached the XF86Config-4. > > >Thank you all (in advance) for any hints. > > > > I've got other similar reports, it seems that XFree 4.2 DRI driver will > > lockup with the RageM3 where 4.1 worked (with DRI and without AGP, of > > course AGP isn't stable neither). > > Strange, I think it used to work for me. > > > PS: Egidio, is it really so bad that you have to shout the 'freeze'? ;) > These are experimental packages, after all. I know that. In fact I'm not complaining. I'm only trying to give a little help (i'm just sorry I can't give a solution:-)) egidio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
