[SOLVED] KDE hangs on startup Dell Inspiron 9300 (Ati)

[Tambu]

Hey All,

Dell Inspiron 9300 (Ati Radeon Mobility x300)

I've spent many grueling hours trying to figure out what is wrong with my configuration. The problem is that when I startup KDE as my user it loads up I see the splash screen startup and a small kmix window pops up but then KDE hangs at that point, the only thing I can do is move my mouse around. Once it's hung I can't change to console at all I have to hard reset my laptop. I managed to change to console before it locks up and I see an unending stream of these messages:

kded: kmilo DellI8xMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status()

It print these messages continuously and I think this is why KDE hangs. Here's another weird bit when I do switch to the console it actually goes farther into KDE for some reason I can hear the KDE wave play just fine but if I do alt-F7 it instantly hangs.

Here are the steps I've taken with this problem. I originally was using KDE 3.5 out of the gentoo ebuilds, then I tried KDE 3.4.3 both versions have identical problems. I have tried the ati-drivers from ATI and those lock up my computer the instant I start up the .run application. I am currently using ati-drivers-8.21.7 drivers out of the gentoo ebuild, but I've also tried the ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3 versions both have the same messages and lockup. The default radeon driver that comes with Xorg does the exact same thing too. If I startup normal X without KDE it seems to startup just fine but if it leave it running for 5mins or so things lock up on me.

I have installed the default gentoo-sources kernel 2.6.15-r1 and I've also tried the mm-sources-2.6.16-rc1 and linux-2.6.13-rsbac (tried this for an older version of kernel. All three had the same effect my KDE would hang. I used the same config in each. I have changed up my xorg.conf several times with different drivers and configs all result in the same problems.


I've tried without luck to find help on #gentoo and I thought I would try here as my last try. I appreciate any help.

Below are my xorg.conf and .config I've reconfigured my xorg.conf repeatedly with different drivers for mouse and everything I've no idea what is causing this.

.config - ftp://members.cox.net/config
xorg.conf - ftp://members.cox.net/xorg.conf

[Tambu]

Sorry my ftp server is not cooperating here are additional links:
xorg.conf - http://pastebin.com/528763
.config - http://pastebin.com/528762

[Tambu]

Hey All,

I managed to solve my problems so I thought I would throw this up here for anyone having problems with inspiron 9300. I found this guys page with great instructions on getting 9300 going with gentoo / kde.

http://krosswindz.blogspot.com/2005/10/gentoo-linux-on-dell-inspiron-9300.html

I followed his instructions and used his .config (even though it was for older kernel it worked) and I used his xorg.conf

The only thing I changed as that the newer kernel doesn't have the line:
#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI

that he talks about so you can't do this. I found another way however to get ATAPI into the libata module here:

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5836

you just add libata.atapi_enabled=1 ide1=noprobe to your kernel boot or grub.conf parameters and it will detect the cdrom as /dev/sr0.

Good Luck
Thanks