xorg-7.0 freezes on gentoo ppc64 linux with 9800 card

[Yang Dehua]

Dear Brian,
Thank you.
I just fetched the cvs of xf86-video-ati driver from freedesktop.org, and it worked on my 9800xt card.

Regards,
Dehua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc at carlstrom.com>
To: "Yang Dehua" <yangdh at cableplus.com.cn>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: xorg-7.0 freezes on gentoo ppc64 linux with 9800 card


> Yang Dehua writes:
>  > I just bought a mac 9800xt card to replace my 9600pro on my G5
>  > running gentoo ppc64 linux(2006.0, 64-bit userland). The system
>  > worked fine until I started xorg-7.0: the screen blacked and the
>  > keyboard and mouse were not responding any more, so I had to shutdown
>  > the machine. The same X config worked well with 9600pro card(64M).
> 
> I ran into this and posted a workaround about it here for fedora:
>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2006-March/000816.html
> 
> I based this workaround based on the Ubuntu discussion here:
>     https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/30426
> 
> Basically, Benjamin Herrenschmidt recommends "building the ati driver
> from X.org ati-1-0-branch CVS branch". With that, I'm working in X
> happily. I'll note that an alternative before that was to use the
> "fbdev" driver instead of the "radeon".
> 
> -bri
> 
>