Hi,
> > > both on my desktop and my laptop i am getting strange hangs
> > > when running XFree packages (both debian testing/unstable,
> > > 4.2.1-{12.1,15}) with the newer linux kernels. This happens
> > > for me since one of the 2.5.5* kernels (and it still happens
> > > with 2.6.0) and now i also checked the same happens with
> > > 4.2.23 (but doesn't happen with 4.2.22).
> >
> > Sounds like it's related to the newer DRM.
> >
> > > bingo, yes, i made a test with the newer kernels + the old
> > > xfree 4.2 but disabling dri (taking out the dri module line
> > > in the XFree86 config file) and it worked ok (quite slow of
> > > course but that was to be expected ;-)
>
> I can confirm this. I got just the same problem on my laptop, a Dell
> with an ATI Radeon card, X version 4.2.1-12.1. When I start glxgears on
> kernel 2.4.23 or 2.6.0-test9, it all hangs. No problems on 2.4.22 (or
> earlier), which were configured just the same as .23, apart from the low
> latency patches (which aren't available yet for .23).
In my desktop i solved the problem completely thanks to Michel 's advice by
just installing the new XFree 4.3 packages from experimental.
That was apparently not enough in my laptop, i still have dri disabled ,
otherwise it hangs. Didn't have time yet to check more cerefully.
Cheers, Ariel
