On Don, 2012-06-07 at 17:57 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > It is highly reproducible. There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which worked in > the past > with earlier versions of the X server and the free radeon driver. I changed > to fglrx in the > past, but that now is incompatible with the latest X and I updated > erroneously. Now I > thought to go back to the free driver and get crashes. The fglrx module is > not loaded, > update-alternative was run for glx.
Please double-check that all remnants of fglrx are completely removed. > [ 77355.289] (WW) RADEON(0): [DRI2] Direct rendering is not supported when > VGA arb is necessary for the device > [ 77355.289] (II) RADEON(0): Front buffer size: 7392K > [ 77355.289] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 222631K > [ 77355.289] (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled > [ 77355.289] (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled > [ 77355.289] (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed > [ 77355.289] (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled This is weird. Please provide the full dmesg output. I guess the crash is probably due to not properly dealing with the failure to initialize acceleration. Until the VGA arbitration issue is worked out, you should be able to get a working server with Option "NoAccel". -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339086475.25194.557.camel@thor.local