Hello, I'm having problems with X on my new laptop. The model is a Gericom Masterpiece Radeon, that has an integrated ATI Mobility Radeon M9. At the first (once week ago) I installed on it Debian Sid, with XFree86 4.2.1. The problem is that sometimes (very often 1/3 or 1/2 aprox.), when I startx, the screen starts blanking, drawing some patterns (marbling) until the screen is totally blank (a little purple, too). The window manager (now KDE) continues loading normally but I cannot see anything, nor rebooting the machine, like the system had freezed completely. If I use the root account, the problem appears more less frecuently, but is the same. Sometimes, not always, it happens when I startx, and anothers when I exit X. If I switch between terminals, the screen freezes too. I have updated X to 4.3.0, but the problems continues being the same. I have trying using the radeon driver, vesa, disabling DRI (when it starts properly, acceleration works, glxgears shows about 800/1000 fps), activating DPMS, toggling off, changing monitor config, one radeon driver patched that solves some similar problems, show in various bugs (26,73,74), but always the problem is the same. I'm getting crazy :( I thinks is not a hardware problem because under windows I get no problem.
Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 4.8, but the problems are exactly the same (under XFree 4.3.0, now with Fluxbox), except that, when it happens (like before, it's random, but very often), with Ctrl+Alt+Supr I can reset the machine (is not totally freezed). I have observed that if I use a normal user account the problems appears much more frecuently (almost always, starting or exiting). In the logs doesn't appear any error that can helps me, neither when the problems appears at startx nor exiting the X. During a X session (when it start properly), if I don't switch between virtual terminals, it never crashes. Can anyone help me? Any clue? Any help or indication would be apreciated. Thanks! Regards. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
