Re: problems with radeon driver (solved)

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 10:47 +0800, Bob wrote:
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:26 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

Hello,

I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200
(AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this card,
after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported this
problem in the past. The only workaround I've found was to install the
fglrx-driver package, run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select the
fglrx driver instead the ati one. No more video freezes. But now totem
doesn't start, I get the message: The Application "totem" has quit
unexpectedly. This problem has to do exclusively with the fglrx driver.
I experimented with the ati and fglrx drivers in another i386 machine,
and totem didn't start with the fglrx driver. It works fine with the ati
driver from x.org.


After a *lot* of googling, I discovered that the problem with the xorg
driver is the glx module. Disabling it I can use the xorg ati driver
without problems. And I can run totem and grace too! (they didn't work
with the driver from ATI) fortunately the machine is only for work, so I
can do perfectly well without the glx module... I guess


Mmm, I use glx on 3 different radeons, what page suggested that was the
problem?

what kind of radeon are they? the problem seems to be with the amd64
port. I didn't keep the page, sorry. Only the message regarding the glx
module. But the prove is that now, with out the glx module loaded, I can
use the system.

When the screen freezes is it just the screen? Can you ssh in and have
a look at x log?

when freezes, the only way to go out is with a hard reboot, which takes
you to another screen which freezes again... Mouse works, but I can do
anything. x log shows nothing...

regards

Marcelo

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