Bug 13940

Summary: X with ati/radeon driver gets stuck in loop with PreferredMode set
Product: xorg Reporter: Paul van Tilburg <paul>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: bas
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Paul van Tilburg 2008-01-05 09:07:08 UTC 
When a PreferredMode is set in a Monitor section, X starts but immediately gets stuck in a loop (100% CPU usage) without making it to actually displaying anything.  X will not respond to any signals except for KILL.
I have seen this happen with all ati driver versions from the past 3, 4 months (up until and including 6.7.198~git20080102.30cab1db) on both an ATI Radeon 9200 Pro and ATI X800 XL.

N.B. The options in the Device section have no effect on the problem.
Comment 1 Paul van Tilburg 2008-01-05 09:07:35 UTC 
Created attachment 13542 [details]
Xorg configuration
Comment 2 Paul van Tilburg 2008-01-05 09:07:55 UTC 
Created attachment 13543 [details]
Xorg log
Comment 3 Julien Cristau 2008-01-05 09:24:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> When a PreferredMode is set in a Monitor section, X starts but immediately gets
> stuck in a loop (100% CPU usage) without making it to actually displaying
> anything.  

this is a server bug, already fixed.  please upgrade to the latest xserver-xorg-core package in sid.
Comment 4 Paul van Tilburg 2008-01-05 13:40:46 UTC 
I hadn't expected that, seemed ati specific. Confirmed fixed!

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