Re: Freezing with ATI Radeon 9800 (NetBSD/amd64 4.0)

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jean-yves.migeon%espci.fr@localhost>]

Alex Hanson wrote:
> Alex Hanson <alex <at> alexhanson.org> writes:
>   
> > 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.
> >     
Had almost the same issue with a radeon mobility 9600.

Try disabling agp fast write and see if it changes anything:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Radeon"
   Driver      "radeon"
   Option      "AGPFastWrite" "false"
EndSection

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