Description of problem: I just installed FC9 and xorg hangs on startup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-1.20080701.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the computer into runlevel 5 or telinit 5 2. Watch X hang (100% CPU usage by Xorg) Actual results: Hang, no X comes up. Expected results: X works. Additional info: I have a Radeon 9000 graphics card. Some experimentation shows that disabling DRI for the driver allows X to start without hanging... but of course without DRI, which is quite suboptimal. I tried to profile to see whether I could get any info on the hang, but even with all the relevant X debuginfo packages installed I didn't get much. sysprof says that all the time is spent in the kernel, called from X. If there is any more information that I can provide that would help resolve this, I would be very happy to do so in the next two days. After that I won't have access to this machine for three weeks. The point of installing Fedora Core on this machine was to do some graphics performance testing on Firefox, so this bug is basically making the computer useless to me for its intended purpose...
is this an AGP box? please try adding Option "AGPMode" "1" or Option "BusType" "PCI" to the xorg.conf
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Yeah, this is an AGP box. Setting AGPMode to 1 or 2, or setting BusType to PCI does in fact make the problem go away. Setting AGPMode to 4 makes it reappear. The default if I don't set anything is 4, looks like. The X server log from when things don't work has: (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x 4x AGP is enabled in the BIOS. What's odd is that my previous install (FC 4, to be exact) worked with this same setup. Perhaps it didn't try to use 4x AGP?
Created attachment 311954 [details] xorg.conf that shows the problem (with the manual 4x agp setting, but commenting that line out uses 4x by default)
Created attachment 311955 [details] Corresponding log
Created attachment 311956 [details] Log from running without an xorg.conf: also reproduces the bug
With AGPMode set to 2, X starts, but everything dies as soon as I start emacs. With AGPMode set to 1, things seem to be OK.
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