On Sam, 2003-03-01 at 19:42, stamp wrote: > > i have one of the new ibooks (12", 800mhz, radeon m7). > after reading some howto's i installed xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, > xlibmesa3-dri-trunk and drm-trunk-module-src (and compiled the > drivers). > > now without the radeon-kernel-module avaiable (or with the old, > incompatible one) everything is running fine, but x is not > accelerated. > with the correct radeon driver module (V1.7.0) i get a very strange > behaviour: when i start x (with startx), the whole machine seems to > freeze (the screen turns black and i'm no more able to switch > consoles. but it is still possible to log in with ssh. > looking at 'ps axu', X seems to hang in a loop (uses 99.9% cpu).
You probably need to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. To that end, I have created a file /etc/modutils/drm containing below radeon agpgart and run update-modules. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
