Xorg freezes the system with radeon driver on X1650 Pro

[oblidor]

Use the latest ati driver (i mean the open source driver), not radeon. It works!

[Extreme Coder]

Thanks a lot Execute_Method, I will try that soon. Maybe that's why it wasn't working the whole time.
Is the r300 module used for the R500 series as well?

[Execute_Method]

Thanks a lot Execute_Method, I will try that soon. Maybe that's why it wasn't working the whole time.
Is the r300 module used for the R500 series as well?

I do believe so.. BTW, I'm almost certain it will fix your problems. I had the same issue a month (before it was in testing) ago when I built the whole thing from PKGBUILDs. It took me a while to figure that one out.

I have an x1650(rv535)AGP.

using xorg1.5-rc6, mesa 7.1-1, ati6.9.

FYI, I was never able to get the radeonhd driver to work right....plus I think the ati driver is still better for our cards.

[Execute_Method]

Use the latest ati driver (i mean the open source driver), not radeon. It works!

it's the same thing....in xorg.conf I specify "radeon"... The closed source is "FGLRX".

[Extreme Coder]

It didn't work
And I was almost sure it will work this time :/

libgl's dri files conflict with xf86-video-ati's dri files (r300 and radeon). I tried launching X, once with the DRI files from libgl, once with xf86-video-ati's, same results

I hope that it will improve once X server 1.5 and X.org 7.4 move from testing to core..

[neuron]

I've had crashes on my test box recently:
When radeon isn't loaded (the kernel module) when X is started.
When fglrx is loaded when I start X.

[Execute_Method]

From the radeonhd x.org wiki:

http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3ADRI

Check it out, it might help you.
The process about the same for radeon!

BTW I'm pretty sure(according to build order) that the r300&radeon driver files (provided by libgl) have to be in place *BEFORE* building ati.

The subsystems have to be built and installed in the following order:

* dri2proto
*

mesa (add --with-dri-drivers=radeon,r300,swrast to ./autogen.sh to speed up the build considerably)
* Xserver: If using x86_64 we need to build the xserver, which is quite painful:
o xextproto
o xproto (is named x11proto in the git repository)
o inputproto
o pixman
o xserver
o xf86-input-mouse
o xf86-input-keyboard
o xf86-input-evdev (if used)
* radeonhd

[darkelf]

You wrote that you are using Arch Linux, like me. Can you try xf86-video-ati from both core and testing? Is it still broken? I use r300 right now but I want to move to r500 just like you and I plan to use xf86-video-ati driver.

[Extreme Coder]

There was no change in packages as far as I can see, why would it make a different result now?

[darkelf]

I can prepare PKGBUILD with latest xf86-video-ati and Mesa to build xf86-video-ati package for you.