my radeon hd card is no longer working

[iacbsd]

has anyone ever experienced a blank white screen of death which completely freezes your pc when running xorg with a ati radeon hd XXXX card?

[adamk]

Which driver are you using, radeon or radeonhd? Have you tried the other one as well to see if the problem persists?

[iacbsd]

yes i have tried both in my xorg.conf any other reasons why this could happen?

[adamk]

Nothing comes to mind, unfortunately. Are you able to remotely access the machine when this happens?

Adam

[iacbsd]

no i am not able to remotely access the machine at all it completely freezes my pc. its strange because it has worked before, whats crazy is that xorg works on other Os's xorg it is crazy, i can usually solve problems but this one has me stumped

[jggimi]

Some possible debugging aids, assuming Ctrl-Alt-Backspace fails:

1. Xorg.0.log
2. Serial console
3. misc@ archives

[iacbsd]

Thanks JG yeah i see this error
X:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeonhd_drv.so: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so : WARNING: symbol(AtomBiosRequestList) size mismatch, relink your program

I think the AtomBios is the bios for the card it blows me away i bet it is something i am looking over...

[iacbsd]

ok update...i can get x running with the vesa driver, now i want to resinstall the drivers for radeonhd i dont know should i just update xenocara i am on the 4.6 amd64 snap

[iacbsd]

ok if anyone ever runs into this it is probably a bug I got it solved! i had to enable Option "UseAtomBios" "on" in my xorg.conf file after reading over the man page i was able to find that it could be enabled if all else fails. I guess it did have something to do with the bios on my ATI card either way i have it working i hope this can help someone else with an ATI HD card if they run into the same problem...now i can finally get some rest