Vlad Galu wrote: > On 1/4/07, Randall Stewart <rrs_at_cisco.com> wrote: >> Anton Berezin wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:18:12PM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote: >> > >> >> My "vacation" project was to reload the 80Gig disk that >> >> came with my Thinkpad T43 with the latest version of >> >> current... >> > >> > ... >> > >> >> I just decided to rebuild and reload my latest kernel changes I am >> >> working on for SCTP.. and for the first time I did the logout button. >> >> >> >> Bam.. black-screen.. and reboot. >> > >> > I have the same experience with my T-43, but only when there is a >> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf present. If I just start X without configuration, >> > everything's fine and dandy. With configuration, ANY configuration >> (I had >> > to build some to work with external monitor, with presentation >> projector, >> > that sort of thing), I get exactly the symptoms you describe. >> > >> > It's been like that since I got the machine in the beginning of August. >> > It's been running moderately recent -current (never older than a >> month or >> > so). I did not got around reporting this. >> > >> > So, just for the sake of it: move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way, >> sync >> > and wait, do your reboot magic, then see whether it works. >> > >> > \Anton. >> Hmm.. >> >> Do you mean /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf >> >> I don't have anything in the /etc/X11 directory... >> >> And I thought that is where X11 got its know-how on how >> to initialize.... >> >> I will try moving the one I have out of the way.. in fact >> thinking about it.. I did not regenerate this (with the >> config program) but copied it from my old disk.. but of >> course even if its bad it should not crash the kernel. > > FWIW, I experience the same symptoms on a Radeon Mobility X300. > They go away when I disable DRI. I think that by not using a > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, X switches to either vesa(4) or ati(4) drivers > instead of using radeon(4). > >> R >> >> >> -- >> Randall Stewart >> NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. >> 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell) >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >> > > Ok.. I now have a work around :-) with a bit of playing.. I find that if you go into the xorg.conf file and comment out the line: Section "Module" # Load "dri" <---- Then everything is fine.. no more crashes :-) R -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)Received on Thu Jan 04 2007 - 10:29:39 UTC
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