Eben King said:
> My friend (call him T) has a Radeon 9000 and he's trying to get Gnome from
> Ubuntu up (XFree86 4.3). The last message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log is
> that
> it successfully loaded DRI, then it freezes the machine with a black
> screen.
> {Caps,Scroll,Num}lock don't illuminate their respective lights, and
> ctrl-alt-{backspace,F[1-6]} don't work. gdm loads, but Gnome won't.
> Actually he said:
>
> ,--
> | after [messing] with bios settings, [gdm] will load [...] and allow me
> to
> | put in my username and password. at that point it should load Gnome,
> etc,
> | but it paints a small bit of thoroughly corrupted graphics across the
> top
> | of the display and locks up solid.
> '--
>
> Does anybody know what might be wrong, or have a working XFree86Config he
> could try? Should I get more details?
>
I would suggest he try the ATI proprietary drivers instead of using the X
driver with DRI:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894
Matt
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