how is initial xorg.conf generated? any options for this?

[James Wilkinson]

Skunk Worx wrote:
> 2) Is there a way to set "no dri"? some machines are locking up randomly
> on the first startx, they use the ATI radeon 7000 chip...commenting out
> load dri fixes this, but is there a way to (by default) not have dri in
> the initial xorg.conf creation?

Sergey wrote:
> That seems weird that DRI conflicts with your radeon videos. Are you sure the 
> lockups caused by DRI extensions?

I can confirm that with a PCI Radeon 9250 (same basic chip design) on
x86_64, I regularly got system freezes *unless* I took "load dri" out of
Xorg.conf.

I won't use closed-source drivers with Linux.

James.

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