Bug 12809 - ATI driver crashes my system hard
Summary: ATI driver crashes my system hard
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium blocker
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?i...
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Reported: 2007-10-15 06:49 UTC by Götz Waschk
Modified: 2007-10-16 05:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
my xorg.conf (3.23 KB, text/plain)
2007-10-15 06:50 UTC, Götz Waschk
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Description Götz Waschk 2007-10-15 06:49:57 UTC
This is on Mandriva cooker 2008.1 with x11-driver-video-ati-6.7.195-3mdv2008.1. At X startup, my system crashes hard, not even the SysRq keys work anymore, no Xorg.log is written at all. It was working fine with version 6.6.3.

My card is this one:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QM [Radeon 9100]
Comment 1 Götz Waschk 2007-10-15 06:50:56 UTC
Created attachment 12053 [details]
my xorg.conf
Comment 2 Götz Waschk 2007-10-15 06:51:27 UTC
BTW no driver of the 6.7.x series has ever worked for me.
Comment 3 Michel Dänzer 2007-10-15 06:54:53 UTC
Does it also happen without Option "AGPFastWrite"?
Comment 4 Götz Waschk 2007-10-15 11:12:03 UTC
There's no crash without that option.
Comment 5 Alex Deucher 2007-10-15 11:20:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> There's no crash without that option.
> 

There's a reason that option is disabled by default.  It's best to leave it disabled.
Comment 6 Götz Waschk 2007-10-16 03:47:15 UTC
OK. But it was working with this option and the old version, so maybe it is a regression.
Comment 7 Roland Scheidegger 2007-10-16 05:41:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> OK. But it was working with this option and the old version, so maybe it is a
> regression.
Even with old drivers, fast writes almost always lead to instant crash on pretty much any setup, so this is not a regression. I'm surprised it worked for you - are you sure it actually got enabled.


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