On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: > > Me too. > I started a thread a few days ago titled "Restarting new Xorg freezes > system". > My symptoms are the same as yours. > I'm not running hald at all. > I'm not using full-blown gnome, just windowmaker. > I'm using the "radeon" driver on an ATI HD 4350 > > I just tried switching to the "vesa" driver, and now I can stop and start > X as much as I want with no problems whatsoever. > I know that this was not a problem with the "radeon" driver prior to the > Xorg update.
Hi, Did a few tests more: 1) Section "ServerLayout" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" Section "Device" Driver "radeon" moused running hald running Result: X (gnome in my case) starts, mouse moves. Upon leaving X the console is to something different than 80x25 lines - at least I can't see about 2-3 lines on the bottom of the screen. However - as soon as a start X again I get graphical junk on the display, mouse & keyboard frozen, no switching of consoles nor can I log in via the net (ssh) 2) Same as 1) above however this time with Driver "radeonhd" Result: Almost the same as 1) above - only difference: When I leave X the console comes back again to 80x25 lines. Hoever - like in 1) above - the second attempt to start X ends in a machine completely frozen :-( 3) Same as 1) - this time with Driver "vesa" Result: Everything works - i.e. back and forth between X and console. Sure enough working with Vesa is a workaround only given the huge difference in speed between the Vesa- and radeon drivers. 4) Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" under 'Section "ServerLayout"' with Driver "radeonhd" Result: X works only once (as in Tests 1&2 above). Second attempt to start X gives a "frozen box" again. As you already mentioned o) no problem with VESA-Driver o) no problems with radeon-driver prior to the Upgrade to X 7.4 Hope this helps someone out there to track things down. -ewald _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"