ATI Radeon Mobility6 hangs system...

IOOOOOI · n00b Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Los Angeles

... on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277 w/Intel 845 chipset.

When? If I flip from X session to console, then back. Must hard reboot after that. Magic Sysrq no help.

Gentoo 1.2 stock, any window manager.

Any ideas?
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soopurman · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

i had this same problem with my Titanium PowerBook G4 550 (yes, i know its a whole different architecture (PPC) for the Macintosh, but it uses the exact same graphics chip and it *is* a cross-platform operating system).
to fix it, i compiled frame buffer support into my kernel (under console drivers in make menuconfig) and specifically radeon frame buffer support. then in my XF86Config, under "Device" i turned on "Option UseFBdev" and it cleared everything up.

hope this helps...
- mike
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IOOOOOI · n00b Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Los Angeles

Well, I tried that, but it actually made things worse. X was completely distorted when it started, and the original problem was still happening.

Bummer.
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