Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 06:43, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > > > > ... or just disable KMS (and yes it sounds like a KMS issue). You can > > find details on [1]. > > Seems that his KMS and DRI are already disabled. > > >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/ca

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 06:43, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > ... or just disable KMS (and yes it sounds like a KMS issue). You can > find details on [1]. Seems that his KMS and DRI are already disabled. >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 >[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" >(EE)

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:29 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even > > > without X! So I don't think the problem i

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:29 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even > > without X! So I don't think the problem is with xorg. I'm now using an > > installed versio

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:29 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even > without X! So I don't think the problem is with xorg. I'm now using an > installed version of stable and that has no crashes, so it seems to be > something ab

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:58:24, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > At the moment I have a blank xorg.conf but I've also used one which has > > ati as the driver. > > > > Here is the log: > > > (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: > > You need not mess with

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:58:24, Anthony Campbell wrote: > At the moment I have a blank xorg.conf but I've also used one which has > ati as the driver. > > Here is the log: > (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: You need not mess with nouveau, because you have an ATI card and are using the

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:04:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-5-686 and now X starts and works for a > > bit but then starts flickering and is unusable. This is on a Thinkpad > > Z61M. > > > > The text terminals now h

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:04:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-5-686 and now X starts and works for a > bit but then starts flickering and is unusable. This is on a Thinkpad > Z61M. > > The text terminals now have small text but that is a minor issue. > > I found s

Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-5-686 and now X starts and works for a bit but then starts flickering and is unusable. This is on a Thinkpad Z61M. The text terminals now have small text but that is a minor issue. I found some advice here to blacklist nouveau and put a file in /etc/modprobe.d w