Xorg/X11 driver Radeon: radeon vs. radeonhd, a mess!

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:55:58 +0000
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

[very large snip - radeonhd with dri kills Xorg]
> Please forget about the log file 'Xorg.0.log'. X-server does not write 
> properly a suitable log, so the log is always the last successfully 
> written log.
> 

So it's crashing before it can even write the log.

> I tried starting X via 'startx', redirecting the log, but whenever the 
> server starts, the box crashes/reboots.
> 

No crash dump from the kernel?

How about starting it in gdb?  That might give you a chance to narrow
down where it's crashing, if gdb can stop it before the box crashes.

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Gary Jennejohn