Hi all. I've been on the 'bleeding edge' ( git ) of mesa, xserver, xf86-video-ati & friends for the past year or so ( on Gentoo ). I've got a Turion ( AMD64 ) processor ( running in 64-bit mode ), and a Radeon X700 Mobility.
I updated everything about a week ago, and couldn't get into X at all - it locked my system hard and I had to power off ( magic SysRq keys didn't work ). I was going to move to Ubuntu when 8.10 came out, but since I had seemed to have broken my Gentoo system beyond my ability to repair it ( other than going back to xserver-1.4 ), I thought I'd try out a Ubuntu 8.10 beta release. Things didn't go so well ... It's using xserver-1.5 and mesa-7.1 ( sorry I don't know what version of xf86-video-ati ). I got into X the 1st 2 or 3 times with no problems, but would get lockups after the 1st 10 minutes or so. It looked like X was segfaulting and in the process of dropping back to the console, I'd get a corrupted display, as per my previous report ( bits of screen overlayed in different parts of the screen, and fading from one colour to another over time ... see my previous report for slightly more details ). The only time I managed to get into X and check out my /var/log/Xorg.log.old, it had a whole heap of this at the end: [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop Now ( without having changed anything ), I'm only getting lockups on entering X, exactly the same as I was on Gentoo. X gets to the point of showing the crosshair cursor, but before the stipple effect, and doesn't do anything. I can move the cursor, but *very* slowly. Can't SysRq. Can't drop to a console. Can't CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. Have to power off. I was using Ubuntu's generic xorg.conf, which is remarkably small and must make X detect everything. On Gentoo I had a much longer xorg.conf, and it wasn't detecting anything ( so it's not the detection stuff that's crashing ). The only change I made to Ubuntu's xorg.conf was to enable EXA - admittedly things went sour *after* this, but I haven't been able to switch back to XAA to test ( how do you stop Ubuntu from booting straight into X? ) So anyway, something is seriously borked, at least on my Radeon X700 Mobility. Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg