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Subject:    [gentoo-desktop] Ati Radeon 7000 and pc crashes :(
From:       Michele Di Trani <imagino () libero ! it>
Date:       2003-11-12 11:14:12
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On my recently bought Athlon XP 2000+ I've attached an Ati Radeon 7000 on AGP 
8x port. The card works perfectly with the "ati" drivers but these are good 
just for 2D graphics. So I 've decided to try "radeon" drivers, following the 
documentation I've found on the net. Now here's the strange behaviours: 
 
 1 - The pc starts and the card is recognized. X starts too (I use KDM as a 
login manager). IF i try to restart X Server from KDM the pc hangs and even 
the SysRQ+B doesen't respond. The same thing happens If I log in and then I 
logout, returning to KDM. 
 
 2 - Games run smoothly AFAIK. Glxgears in a window runs at about 220fps (is 
that normal? Anyway...is fast enough for my needs). SOME screensaver crash 
(and after that, 3D is SSSLOOOW), SOME hangs my pc. 
 
 3 - Blender run correctly, but if any "2D" object moves over his window the 
PC hangs and I can only reboot it with SysRq+B (or +O; even +K do 
something...but after a little HD scratching I can only press the reset 
button on the case). When I say "2D object" I mean a new window (for example, 
the rendering window) and the "Amor" inutility. 
 
 Here's my XFree Config (I've cutted out the off-topic parts): 
 
 Section "Module" 
 
 # This loads the DBE extension module. 
 
     Load        "dbe"     # Double buffer extension 
 
 # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables 
 # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. 
     SubSection  "extmod" 
       Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension 
     EndSubSection 
 
 # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules 
     Load        "type1" 
     Load        "speedo" 
     Load        "freetype" 
 #    Load        "xtt" 
 
 # This loads the GLX module 
     Load       "glx" 
 # This loads the DRI module 
     Load       "dri" 
 
 EndSection

[...]

# ********************************************************************** 
 # Graphics device section 
 # ********************************************************************** 
 
 # Any number of graphics device sections may be present 
 
 # Standard VGA Device: 
 
 Section "Device" 
     Identifier   "Standard VGA" 
     VendorName   "Unknown" 
     BoardName   "Unknown" 
 
 # The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override 
 # the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified. 
 
 #    Chipset   "generic" 
 
 # The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver 
 # modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver 
 # module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line 
 # indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section. 
 
     Driver     "vga" 
 # The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices 
 # this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device 
 # section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI 
 # devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not 
 # normally be included unless there is more than one video device 
 # intalled. 
 
 #    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0" 
 
 #    VideoRam   256 
 
 #    Clocks   25.2 28.3 
 
 EndSection 
 
 # Device configured by xf86config: 
 
 Section "Device" 
     Identifier  "Ati Radeon 7000" 
     Driver      "radeon" 
     #VideoRam    65536 
     # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate 
 EndSection

[...]
 
 Section "DRI" 
     Mode 0666 
 EndSection


 
 I hope that someone of you can help me. It would be a shame to have an unused 
3D accelerator :(
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