Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

[Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com>]

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On Wednesday 21 February 2007 17:37, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-02-21, Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> wrote:
> >> The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5.
> >> Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again.  The lock up
> >> occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.1-r4,
> >> 1.2.0-r1.  ati-drivers 8.33.6-r1 also locked up.
>
> On my list of things to do is check to see if 8.28.8 with the
> 2.6.19 patch works...
>
> > Hmm... My ati-drivers actually crashes the XServer completely.
> > And (Usually) restarts (Sometimes kdm just gives up as well).
> >
> > I did attempt to raise a support request about it... And got
> > an email back from ATI/AMD saying I shuld be thankful for what
> > they've given me & not to bother them about it...
>
> I was bying ATI cards because the open-source driver supported
> DRI (it was a bit flakey, but it mostly "just worked"). But,
> that ended with the 92xx series.  My experience (and the
> general consensus, AFAICT) is that the NVidia closed-source
> drivers are far less problematic than the ATI ones.
>
> I've got a 3 year old ATI card that ATI doesn't support at all
> anymore with Linux drivers.  I've got a 6 year old NVidia card
> that still works perfectly and all I had to do is "emerge
> nvidia-drivers"
>
> So I think NVidia is the way to go in general.
>
> [The problem is that you don't get much of a choice with
> laptops.  My IBM ThinkPad was too good a deal to pass up even
> though it came with an ATI M300.]
>

If you have anything up to X600 (Maybe even X700) graphics (basically 9600 on 
PCIe) then the open source drivers should work fine... Mine is an X1400 
sadly, so I don't even get LCD native resolution without the damned ATI 
drivers (Because it's flakey as hell with their DRI, and suspend to RAM 
doesn't work... Still... So why even bother).


Hamish.

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