Re: 5.2.1 X problems with Vaio laptop

From: Jonathan Belson <jon_at_witchspace.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:40:59 -0000 (GMT)
Hiya

>> I have installed 5.2.1 on a Vaio Z600TEK laptop that was previously
>> running 5.1 successfully.  Now when I start X, the system hangs
>> completely and has to be power-cycled.

I also had this problem on my VAIO SR1K.  I found that disabling ACPI made
X work, but broke networking (both the PCMCIA network cards I have here
gave watchdog errors).

>> I'm also getting a boot message
>>
>>   kernel: pcib1: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for
>> \_SB_.PCI0.VID0 - AE_NOT_FOUND
>>
>> Is this likely to be related?
>
>Yes.  Try disabling DRM and seeing if it works better.

I commented out the 'dri' option in my XF86Config and now everything is
fine.

Cheers,


--
Jon
Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 13:41:13 UTC

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