David Nusinow has been working on improving the auto detection of the xorg drivers in Debian. The auto-detected xorg.conf works fine if UseFBdev is not enabled, but locks up otherwise. David believes it's rather a driver bug than an error in the radeonfb, so I'm filing this bug here. All the auto generated configurations and accompanying data is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449089 Please let me know if you need anything else.
the ati driver and radeonfb generally don't get along on x86. Your best bet is not to mix them. Also, you probably don't want ati 6.6.19x; that's a dead end tree. Better to use 6.7.19x or 6.6.3.
Would it be sane to disable using fbdev if we're on x86 in the driver unconditionally? It'd probably save me a lot of pain of dealing with users who've misconfigured their systems.
(In reply to comment #2) > Would it be sane to disable using fbdev if we're on x86 in the driver > unconditionally? It'd probably save me a lot of pain of dealing with users > who've misconfigured their systems. > definitely on x86. fbdev is not compatible with dualhead and such either.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Would it be sane to disable using fbdev if we're on x86 in the driver > > unconditionally? It'd probably save me a lot of pain of dealing with users > > who've misconfigured their systems. > > > > definitely on x86. fbdev is not compatible with dualhead and such either. Ok, I'll work up a patch this weekend when I can actually use my ati card.
Re-opening, retitling, and setting severity to enhancement to reflect where this bug is heading.
(In reply to comment #5) > Re-opening, retitling, and setting severity to enhancement to reflect where > this bug is heading. > 6.7.19x no longer even has the usefbdev option. It's only an issue with older stuff.
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Re-opening, retitling, and setting severity to enhancement to reflect where > > this bug is heading. > > > > 6.7.19x no longer even has the usefbdev option. It's only an issue with older > stuff. Oh, excellent. In that case, I'll close it again. Thanks!
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