I'm running Gentoo Linux with git xorg version for some time (tried few stable ones earlier) and kernel 2.6.33 (I've tried .30 and .31 earlier too) on an Asus F5RL laptop with the following video card: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) With modesetting disabled, the Xorg server tends to crash semi-randomly on video card initialization. The crashes might be partially hardware-related as when starting the laptop cold the Xorg tends to start successfully more often while after warm reboot it crashes even up to 10 times in a row. And by 'crashing' there I mean that the screen goes blank, backlight goes off and nothing more happens. The screen is probably still blank (checked with strong external light), there's no disk activity (there's always some when xdm starts) and the system doesn't respond to SysRq. With modesetting enabled, the video card seems to be initialized successfully every boot (as it is initalized earlier then?) and Xorg starts fine then. It tends to crash with larger graphics I/O then though, but it's rather a material for another bugreport. I'll attach the logfiles later today (after the system is updated and I reproduce the issue). Should I attach anything else?
Created attachment 35669 [details] Partial Xorg.0.log I was able to get This is the partial Xorg.0.log I was able to get through ssh-running 'tail' before the crash occured. I guess it won't help much, and I would appreciate suggestions on how to get a more complete one.
Created attachment 35670 [details] The logfile from successful boot (for comparison/card-related info)
I haven't been able to reproduce the issue for a long time, thus I assume it was fixed.
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