On Aug 05, 09 12:34:15 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
That's not the problem. Just reinstalling the latest standard radeonhd release, fixes the problem. The issue is the recent changes to the driver in the git repository. For the RS690M card, the recent changes to the driver simply cause X to blackscreen and lock when you attempt to start kdm. This behavior began with the git pull I did on July 25, 2009. Before that, the build of radeonhd worked fine. Right now I'm running on:
When I say "blackscreen" I mean the laptop display looks like it is unpowered or unitialized. No slight light-gray backlight you expect from the initial "blank" screen on X start. With the changes to the driver, the screen looks like it is unpowered and off. I'll post my build logs so you can look to see if they hold a clue:
If you could git bisect this issue that would be most helpful.
In your case something like
git bisect start d19a10b753d3 1.2.5
should start it correctly (assuming that the commit of 2009-07-24 was
already broken, because the next was on 2009-07-28).
And when you find the causing commit, an Xserver log of both the causing
commit and the commit before would be helpful for comparison.
Thanks
Matthias
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Matthias Hopf