Bug 12809

Summary: ATI driver crashes my system hard
Product: xorg Reporter: Götz Waschk <waschk>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: blocker    
Priority: medium CC: goetz.waschk
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
URL: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30445
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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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