Hi all, I am running gentoo of a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. I am currently using the most recent gentoo-dev-sources kernel (linux-2.6.0-gentoo). The laptop has a 32MB Radeon graphics card and I have set it up so that it using direct rendering and everything works fine except that I cannot shut kde down. Everytime I got to reboot, logoff, or shutdown the computer crashes before entering the shutdown sequence - the screen just goes blank. If I turn off drm in the XF86Config file then there is no problem - but i would like drm. I am using a XF86Config generated by xf86config and slightly modified (load drm - etc). I have not used the ati drivers that one can emerge from gentoo. I have just used the support for radeon cards available in the kernel. (I tried to follow the instructions on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=105354&highlight=direct+rendering+2+6 but I could not get the Xserver to work at all). I have tried compiling drm support from the 2.6 kernel both as modules and as part of the kernel - I have also upgraded to the most recent release of the gentoo-dev-sources and none of this has made a difference - direct rendering works fine but I can't shutdown.
Occasionally when kde crashes on shutdown it completely destroys my XF86Config file and I have to build a new one - it has also lost my imap mail account and my filters - it has lost my recent programms list - and it has destroyed kmix (now I only get an empty window where the mixer used to be - I have even recompiled kdemultimedia and kmix is still broken). Any advice on what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated Cheers Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
