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pixellany

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From: Annapolis, MD

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 59

upgrade including xorg 1.7.4.901---breaks radeon driver

Arch linux 32-bit
AMD 2400XP, ATI Radeon 7500 Graphics

Just did a system upgrade which included xorg-server being upgraded to version 1.7.4.901
This seems to have broken the "radeon" driver--I get a very dim green screen. I have now got the system running with the vesa driver.

Google shows that there is a known issue here, but I did not see my exact symptoms or a cure.

Anyone have any clues?

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: upgrade including xorg 1.7.4.901---breaks radeon driver

Have you tried xf86-video-ati-git from AUR ?

sparchy

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From: arizona, usa

Registered: 2007-11-20

Posts: 32

Re: upgrade including xorg 1.7.4.901---breaks radeon driver

I have almost the same setup but with a Sempron 2200 and Radeon 9000pro.  I was getting hard lockups when starting glxgears then I started X without an xorg.conf file and looked at my Xorg.0.log and saw it was using 'ati' as the video driver when X autoconfigured itself.  Try starting X without an xorg.conf file(if your using one) then look at your log file.  I think I was using an old xorg.conf file with 'Driver "radeon"' in the Device section that may have been the cause for the lockup because when I changed my driver to just 'ati' in my xorg.conf I stopped getting lockups when trying to do mesa/3d stuff(glxgears etc.,).

theapodan

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 116

Re: upgrade including xorg 1.7.4.901---breaks radeon driver

It may be a bug.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26681