Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Nvidia problem

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org>]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 17:52, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> * On Wed Jul-27-2005 at 02:59:06 AM -0700, Duncan said:
> > However, I got it working with an ATI Radeon 9200 SE and the xorg native
> > drivers the other day.  It's /nice/ in KDE.  That was running the
> > xorg-x11-6.8.99.15 6.9/7.0 snapshot build, with unified framebuffer on a
> > dual 2048x1736 monitor layout.
>
> I thought I would do the same, except after switching to an amd64
> machine any attempt to use my Radeon 9200 SE causes a hard lock up as
> soon as I type 'startx'. No ssh'ing in from another box, no ctl-alt-bs,
> the only way out is a hard reset. For now I'm using 2 GeForces, but I
> would rather switch to the ATI. Did yours just work 'out of the box'?

Check your config. My Radeon is rock stable, but if it's initialized and 
deinitialized too quickly (usually a bad X config returning an error), it 
freezes the system. Note that my X config has been good since July 2004ish, 
so the situation may be different now.
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
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