Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:06:43 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:25:34PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
Then your best bet is reporting the problem at BTS.

Bug tracking system? Debian's or Xorg's?

Better, Debian's. Debian devels can be in touch with Xorg's ones.

Out fo curiosity, I tried an
Ubuntu live disc (10.04) with the Radeon 3450 installed. The machien
locks up as well.

Wow... that could be pointing to "xorg" server or just a faulty card :-?

Also, I dug out an old Saphire 256MB X1300 card that I had in a junk
box. All is well: 2d, 3d, s2ram. No lockups using 3d xscreensaver, like
I had with the Dell X1300. Ubuntu live works great. So, maybe the Dell
cards really do funny things.

I don't think (well, I "hope" not) Dell's cards are tweaked in an
insanely manner :-), but the card itself can have some hardware problem.

Anybody have any ideas why I'm having so much trouble just getting 2D
working?

Because "Xorg" is getting updates and changes very quickly.

I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video
card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable.
You pays your money and you takes your chances...

I think today's linux users are experiencing many difficulties with our
graphics cards but than can be seen as a good signal: Xorg is evolving
and adding many features (device hot plugging, HDMI interfaces with
sound, ATI -radeon- and nVidia -nouveu- updated drivers with more 3D
capabilities, KMS, driver fallback...).

Well, I agree, there is a prize to pay for getting all that stuff
working: things tend to broke more often than used to do years ago.

Thanks for the suggestions.

You're welcome. I hope you finally can solve this issue :-)

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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