On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:06:43 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:25:34PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> Then your best bet is reporting the problem at BTS. > > Bug tracking system? Debian's or Xorg's?
Better, Debian's. Debian devels can be in touch with Xorg's ones. > Out fo curiosity, I tried an > Ubuntu live disc (10.04) with the Radeon 3450 installed. The machien > locks up as well. Wow... that could be pointing to "xorg" server or just a faulty card :-? > Also, I dug out an old Saphire 256MB X1300 card that I had in a junk > box. All is well: 2d, 3d, s2ram. No lockups using 3d xscreensaver, like > I had with the Dell X1300. Ubuntu live works great. So, maybe the Dell > cards really do funny things. I don't think (well, I "hope" not) Dell's cards are tweaked in an insanely manner :-), but the card itself can have some hardware problem. >> > Anybody have any ideas why I'm having so much trouble just getting 2D >> > working? >> >> Because "Xorg" is getting updates and changes very quickly. > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video > card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable. > You pays your money and you takes your chances... I think today's linux users are experiencing many difficulties with our graphics cards but than can be seen as a good signal: Xorg is evolving and adding many features (device hot plugging, HDMI interfaces with sound, ATI -radeon- and nVidia -nouveu- updated drivers with more 3D capabilities, KMS, driver fallback...). Well, I agree, there is a prize to pay for getting all that stuff working: things tend to broke more often than used to do years ago. > Thanks for the suggestions. You're welcome. I hope you finally can solve this issue :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.24.18.38...@gmail.com