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Freezing with ATI Radeon 9800 (NetBSD/amd64 4.0)



I'm not sure if this is platform-specific, so I posted it here.

I am running NetBSD/amd64 4.0 (the stable release version). I use modular Xorg as installed via pkgsrc following the instructions on the NetBSD wiki. My Xorg configuration can be found here:

http://alexhanson.org/conf/xorg.conf

This configuration worked fine for a while, but I went a few weeks without using NetBSD and then found that it would no longer work. The system would freeze and the screen went black. The monitor was still turned on, however, and never went into standby.

I thought that somewhere along the line, some file may have be come corrupted, so I decided to install NetBSD again from scratch. (I used the same CD for installation -- I never did a checksum.) This time, Xorg worked once, then stopped working after I rebooted.

Using SSH, I was able to see the messages X printed out before freezing:

http://alexhanson.org/conf/log.txt

I don't know if the problem is hardware or software. Windows seems to work fine with the card, although it too has malfunctioned a couple times where the screen would turn black when it tried to switch from BIOS-enabled VGA to my actual driver.

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