Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87675
ATI Radeon 9500 Crashing
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:37 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: When I installed Red Hat 9.0 the auto configure tool chose my card as a 9500 PRO, but it is in fact a 9500 non-pro. I was in luck becuase my card was in the list so I chose the correct one. Once the install was complete I look in the hardware manager and my card was still a 9500 PRO. Here is my real problem. Randomly during use of KDE or GNOME my computer would hang and there was nothing I could do about it. My mouse wouldnt move and my keyboard lightere were flickering on and off, the only thing left to do was restart my computer. Also some other times I would be using red hat and my mouse would be stuck, the pointer wouldnt move. I tried different mice and a usb to ps2 converter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use Gnome or KDE for less than 10 minutes 2. 3. Actual Results: Lockup Expected Results: Continued use Additional info: Also happened when I used mandrake 9.1. I dont know if I should try the drivers on ATI's website becuase they are for XFree 4.2 not what I am using which is 4.3.
Would you please attach your XFree config file and log file (in plain text mode) so that this could be troubleshooted? Did you do a fresh install or an upgrade and if an upgrade from what version?
"keyboard lightere were flickering on and off" Isn't that a sign of kernel oops ?
If the keyboard LEDs are flashing, then it sounds like a kernel panic as David says above, and not an XFree86 problem.
Also, The "9500" vs. "9500 Pro" is irrelevant. All Radeon hardware is configured identically, and the cosmetic name that is displayed in the config tools is irrelevant. While it may not be 100% accurate, it is only _cosmetic_ and does not in any way whatsoever affect the operation of the hardware. To illustrate this, you can manually configure your card and choose "Radeon 7000". You'll notice that the card still works identically as it did before, despite being told it is a Radeon 7000. This is because the driver itself internally detects what the card is at runtime, regardless of what X has been configured as, and does the right thing.
The situation has gotten worse. I went into linux to try to get those files for you but as soon as I get in my mouse is not working, again I tried different mice. Since I am very new to linux I dont know how to get the files without a mouse, is there a way in windows I could get them? also as an update: the mandrake people told me to try to disable 2d and 3d acceleration but that didnt work either.
To add to what you are saying, I did a clean install and I had the keyboard flickering problem in mandrake 9.1. I hope that helps cause red hat 9 rocks and I would love to start using it crash free. Thanks again boys
Sorry I am new to bugzilla, am I supposed to be updating you guys or should I just wait? Thanks, Randy
Created attachment 90855 [details] XF86Config
Created attachment 90856 [details] XF86Config
Created attachment 90857 [details] XFree86.0.log
Any word on this bug? Person reported it, asked me to find out or get a status.
I've not seen any kernel oops text yet....
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