Re: DRI causes Xorg to lockup on boot - Radeon 8500

On 12/24/06, darcy parks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Radeon 8500 AIW running on Ubuntu Edgy (Xorg 7.1.1).  If I enable
> dri in xorg.conf then reboot, my system locks up at the point where X is
> supposed to load.  I can't do anything except hit the reset button.  Booting
> into safe mode and disabling dri allows X to load fine.
>
> The lockup doesn't happen every time, but likely 9 times out of 10 on
> bootup.  Is there a known issue with this card or driver version?
>

try setting the bus type to pci in your xorg.conf .  AGP seems to
cause problems with some chipsets lately.

Alex

> Thanks,
> Darcy Parks
>
>

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