x startup hangs again... ~2.5.69-bk5

downloaded 2.5.69, tried X, no more crashes on startup... life was good downloaded 2.5.69-bk5, started X (4.3.0, DRI enabled)... instant screen corruption and lockup. Same happens with today's bk snapshot.

used hardware:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY

andreas

Can you try with the drivers/char/agp changes backed out ?

What motherboard chipset ?

Dave

ok, i've tried all snapshots starting with today's bk patch. bk[567] crashed upon x startup. bk[34] crashed while moving windows around (i'm using the ion window manager, so it got more of a "beam window around"). bk2 and vanillia seemed stable, but both crashed after a short time.

Then I've looked at my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and found my "aggressive" AGP Settings (enabled 'fast write', agpmode set to 4), i'm now running with bk2 with agpmode set to 2, seems stable. I will try bk-5 after some working with bk2.

intel 830m

andreas

ok, running with 2.5.69-bk8 since 11.5h. I'v just enabled agpmode = 2 in XF86Config-4, everythink is on standard value. The system is stable till now.

I've changed the settings around 2.5.69 because i've tried to get the linux neverwinter nights client running smoother and have forgotten to remove it from the config file. I must have been lucky until 2.5.69-bk5 which started to crash my system (so there isn't a regression, just a "normal" instability (of which i have been warned...).

Andreas

I am not so sure. I have a geforce3 ti5, that has been running fine with nvidia drivers 1.0.4363 (yes, I know they are not supported here).

Thing is, until 2.5.69-bk1/2/3, it have been running fine, and with bk7/8, I have had X dieing when just scrolling a window in evolution or galeon. This is usually if it had been up for a few hours.

Thus, basically with the same drivers/X/whatever, it has been working fine for day no reboot, but somewhere after bk3 something is causing it to misbehave.

The mobo is a Asus P4C800 (Intel 875p chipset), with the agp running in 4x mode.

Regards,

Martin Schlemmer

reproduce it without the binary crap, and I might be interested.

Dave