From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 04:03:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294A6106564A for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:03:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnorwick@centurytel.net) Received: from mail963c35.nsolutionszone.com (mail963c35.nsolutionszone.com [209.235.152.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEFF8FC16 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:03:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Authenticated-User: mnorwick.centurytel.net Received: from [192.168.1.21] (174-124-40-201.dyn.centurytel.net [174.124.40.201]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail963c35.nsolutionszone.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p3A2QpeF007322 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:26:56 GMT Message-ID: <4DA1156B.3080702@centurytel.net> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:26:51 +0000 From: "Michael D. Norwick" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110408 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=FaP+qPOmcLigx2VS2h1+/mVlCb38u491VNzw7+SmOLQ= c=1 sm=1 a=9dbVxmVYL3YA:10 a=Khv1f_6UYkcA:10 a=3WPTVEtZbjMA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=DdGbPI0R7PnZIep1j1DHgw==:17 a=7pzWaIYXajnM2Or6z84A:9 a=y6SAV5ebqdVXrN6aiowA:7 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=DdGbPI0R7PnZIep1j1DHgw==:117 Subject: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:03:06 -0000 Good Day; I am in the final steps of completing a fresh installation of FreeBSD 8.2 on a workstation with a DFI LanParty motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 processor, 3 GB of ram, an ATI Radeon x2900 graphics card, and root on ZFS filesystem. Using ports.tar.gz downloaded, and src CVSup'd this morning, gnome2 is still compiling and installing. While I did have some minor issues with the build of some dependencies, it was nothing I could not work through. I was surprised this afternoon when, while the installation of gnome2 was working, I think it was building GCC 4.4 and friends, the HP 2010i LCD monitor I use on the machine appeared to lose the input to its DVI port. The HD activity light was still flickering so I let it continue and waited a hour or so for it to quit indicating activity before I pressed the reset button. The PC restarted and no filesystem errors were apparent on restart. I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this or, if a PR is necessary against the Xorg radeon driver. The ATI Catalyst utility needs windows or linux and I have neither. There is nothing of value in dmesg or Xorg.0.log $ uname -a FreeBSD rainey 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0 r219081M: Wed Mar 2 08:29:52 CET 2011 root@www4:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Thank You, Michael PS; Many thanks to the maintainer of the mfsBSD zfsinstall .iso. It worked flawlessly for setting up this system.