Xorg crashing on iBook G4 (12.1") /w kernel 3.2.11-1

[fishforbreakfast]

I noticed in a previous post that someone wanted to know if the ati radeon driver was working on an iBook G4.  I just finished doing an update on mine and it is still locking up when I try to run X or go to run level 5.  It was working with kernel version 3.2.7 (I think that this was the previous one??).  Noticed some posts for 3.2.13 and ppc issue fixes in the kernel changelogs.

Cheers,

Fred

[Enric Caussa Morales]

Hey Fred,
It was working fine on my iBook G4, but i'll take a look at it right
now.
Do you have the exact error?
Thanks,
Enric

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Enric Caussa Morales
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[JJ DaNiMoTh]

Il giorno mer, 04/04/2012 alle 17.45 +0200, Enric Caussa Morales ha
scritto:

> Hey Fred,
> It was working fine on my iBook G4, but i'll take a look at it right
> now.
> Do you have the exact error?
> Thanks,

For me the screen just does display a fixed blank underscore.

I can't change VT or anything, just reboot, but messages.log doesn't
report any freeze.

[fishforbreakfast]

I get the same behavior as below.  Can't switch to a console vt or log in via ssh so probably a hard crash.  No info in Xorg.log file, /var/log/messages, dmesg, etc. either.

Fred

[Enric Caussa Morales]

Solved it. Pushing updates to testing. Hold on.

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[Enric Caussa Morales]

OK. I just solved it. That's due to a bug in xf86-video-ati, where the
driver doesn't work without KMS, and it's not updated for the latest
libpciaccess library.

The solution was upgrading libdrm (disabling KMS for radeon) and
updating xf86-video-ati (the previous version was six months old, this
one is just five days old).

To get X working again, please upgrade your system (pacman -Syu). Note
that the packages might take a while to propagate to other mirrors, but
you can also use our main mirror temporarily.

Thanks for reporting it Fred (i had a version with KMS compiled, to help
the #radeon guys debugging).

Cheers,

Enric.

On 04 Apr 2012 07:18, fishforbreakfast wrote:

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Enric Caussa Morales
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[JJ DaNiMoTh]

Il giorno mer, 04/04/2012 alle 19.32 +0200, Enric Caussa Morales ha
scritto:

> OK. I just solved it. That's due to a bug in xf86-video-ati, where the
> driver doesn't work without KMS, and it's not updated for the latest
> libpciaccess library.
>
> The solution was upgrading libdrm (disabling KMS for radeon) and
> updating xf86-video-ati (the previous version was six months old, this
> one is just five days old).

Nice work!

[Enric Morales]

=)

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