Dell XPS Gen3 Odin ~ # uname -a Linux Odin 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 #27 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 11:37:14 EDT 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz GNU/Linux ATI X800XT video card PCI-Express Always reproducible on my machine.I believe it is related to memory size at init. If I change to Mem=512 on kernel line in grub, the problem does not occur, but this is really a bad work-around. The work-around below, although tedious, is preferable.I did search bugs first and nothing is exactly like this. All ATI drivers after 8.23.7 up to and includding 8.28.8 always hang with dri. With ati-drivers-8.23.7, I can get dri to work only following this scenario. 1.emerge =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.23.7 2.reboot 3.set 'option "no_dri" "yes" 4.startx 5.exit XWindows 6.set 'option "no_dri" "no" 7.startx It may take a couple of attempts, but eventually it works in dri with 3d render. If you rebuild the kernel, you have to re-emerge ati-drivers-8.23.7 and go through the scenario above again. Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Last Sync: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:00:08 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa ao aotuv apache2 apm aqua_theme arts asf audacious berkdb bitmap-fonts bl blender-game bonjour caps cdda cddb cdr cle266 cli cpudetection crypt css cups divx4linux dlloader dri dssi dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode esd exif exscalibar fat finger firefox flac fluidsynth fmod font-server fontconfig foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran gatos gdb gif glx gmail gmailtimestamps gml gnome gpm gstreamer gstreamer010 gtalk gtk gtk2 guile gvim gzip id3 imagemagick imlib infopipe input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kcal kde kdepim kernel_linux kexi kig-scripting kipi ladspa lame lcms leim libg++ libvisual libwww live lzo lzw mad md5sum mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext motif mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer multi-tty musepack music musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses net netbeans network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg opengl opera oss pam pcre pdf perl php player png pop portaudio posix pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rhythmbox rtc samba scanner sdk sdl session slp sndfile snmp soap sockets softfax soundtouch spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse-filters sse2 ssl svg tcpd tga thesaurus tiff timidity tokenizer toolbar transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa videos vim vorbis win32codecs wma xanim xine xml xmldoclet xmlreader xmms xorg xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
No news for 3 years, I'll assume this to be fixed with newer drivers. Thanks
