Hi, Since xorg 6.9 I have been having trouble in my powerbook and the ATI driver. I have follow some of the threads but still I get my X freeze.
"dmesg | grep drm" gets this: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.19.0 20050911 on minor 0: I have the kernel 2.6.15.1. I enable the DRM modules from the kernel (radeon, my video card is "0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" I have this erros in the log of Xorg: "................. ................... (II) Loading sub module "drm" (II) LoadModule: "drm" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.so (EE) LoadModule: Module drm does not have a drmModuleData data object. (II) UnloadModule: "drm" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.so (II) UnloadModule: "dri" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.so (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (a required submodule could not be loaded, 0) (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation" .............. .................... " I would appreciate as much help as possible. Thanks for your time. Orlando. On 1/15/06, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 the mental interface ofv > Ben Racher told: > > > Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > >Hi all, > > > > > >last night I upgraded to xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2. First I had to do a > > >ldconfig by hand, because startx was complaining about missing libs. > > > > > >Starting X then freezes my PowerBook5,6 completely. No net, no > > >console. So I had to hard reset the machine. I tried the following: > > > > > >Recreating a xorg.conf by dpkg-reconfigure -> no success > > > > > >Switching from ati(radeon) driver to fbdev -> no success, but no > > >freeze. > > > > > >Switching from 24 to 16 DefaultDepth + fbdev -> no success, X shows > > >the wm splashscreen with an cross cursor similar to the twm one but > > >shuts down after a while. > > > > > >Installing libgl1-mesa-dri in the hope r300 is used with radeon > > >driver -> frozen machine. > > > > > >Are there significant changes from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 which I have > > >overseen? > > > > > >Elimar > > > > > > > > I'm experiencing similar freezing on my powerbook 5,4 with ATI mobility > > radio > > 9600, after upgrading to 6.9.0 Have you figured out what's wrong at all? > > Could > > you point to any links, is it the ATI driver? I finally just downgraded back > > down to 6.8.2 after fiddling with it forever... jeez, what a waste of time > > for > > me. Thanks. > > I've tried > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00680.html > and were able to run X. But only in 2-D Mode. DRI doesn't work but > freezes with both xlibmesa and libgl1-mesa. The newest DRI modules > are in my kernel, though. The 2-D mode shows some errors related to > my synaptic driver which I didn't investigate yet. > > Elimar > > > -- > .~. > /V\ L I N U X > /( )\ >Phear the Penguin< > ^^-^^ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ----------- Javier O. Ramírez Martínez Key fingerprint = E7D8 22DC 5B71 72DC A06A 61F4 D823 35ED 2E67 CFB2 linux.mty.itesm.mx/~oramirez
