Subject: Re: NetBSD 3.0: Can't get Xorg to work with ATI Mobility X600
To: Sam Tran <stlist@gmail.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/11/2006 10:27:08
In message <cee681b00601110711o6053d08esdd96fbe7bd1eb2e3@mail.gmail.com>, Sam T
ran writes:
>Hi All,
>
>I installed NetBSD 3.0 on a LENOVO Thinkpad Z60M laptop with an ATI
>Mobility X600 (128Mb).
>
>I can't get Xorg 6.8.2bn1 (compiled and installed Xorg meta from CVS)
>to work. I tried the ATI and the RADEON driver. Every time I try to
>start X it just dies with signal 11.
>
>I booted my laptop with a Linux Live CD using Xorg 6.8.2 and X started
>(ATI driver) without any problem.
>
>Is my problem with NetBSD kernel related or there is something wrong
>with my Xorg installation?
>

When you say "Xorg meta from CVS", do you mean the pkgsrc version of 
xorg?  That would tbe the first thing I'd try.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb