radeon panic and 2.6 kernel

Gregory Boyce gboyce at badbelly.com
Wed Aug 6 17:43:34 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:39, Matt Whiteley wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 06:59, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> > On my machine I recieved similiar radeon errors, but X started fine
> > without them.  
> > 
> > Are you using a USB keyboard or mouse by any chance?  I had to forcibly
> > load the hid driver before my mouse would work.  No pointing device will
> > cause X to crash with an error much like that one.
> 
> I am using a USB keyboard and mouse.  I noticed that there was error
> messages from that also but did not think that was the error that broke
> it.  With shrike and Arjan's kernel I just had to ssh in from another
> computer and 'modprobe uhci-hcd' after it reached the login screen and
> everything would work fine.  Why did it start X then without the
> mouse/keyboard?

Once you had a driver for the USB controller, it probably autodetected
and autoloaded the appropriate drivers for the mouse.  If you check
lsmod, you should see the HID driver there.

-- 
Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com>





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