From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 9 18:50:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6600217 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 18:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (mail.lysator.liu.se [IPv6:2001:6b0:17:f0a0::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6AB135E for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 18:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8022040008 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 75EBB40011; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bernadotte.lysator.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 Received: from mx.daemonic.se (h-45-105.a163.priv.bahnhof.se [94.254.45.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D7AEB40008; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3bqXfV3BgMz8hVn; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daemonic.se Received: from mx.daemonic.se ([IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::3]) (using TLS with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTPS id LUUz3Mtfiwsp; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [10.1.0.4]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3bqXfR1qWbz8hVm; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (celes.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:1::3]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3bqXfR1GwHz9Ctq; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:50:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51DC5B7A.8010301@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:50:34 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yuri Subject: Re: Radeon driver regression in the upstream 7.1.0 version, please don't update xorg until the issue is fixed References: <51DC5919.30907@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <51DC5919.30907@rawbw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130709-2, 2013-07-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:50:47 -0000 On 2013-07-09 20:40, Yuri wrote: > I have the laptop with Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270 (RS690M) chipset on > which the current linux-distributed xorg is freezing (Ubuntu and Mint > distros). Freezing happens after few minutes of work in graphics. > FreeBSD, however, runs fine. > I found that radeon driver in Linux (apt) repositories is currently > newer: linux has 7.1.0 on server 1.13.3, and FreeBSD ports still have > 6.14.3 on server 1.7.7 (latest X.org stable version is 1.14.1) The reason we haven't updated to xserver 1.14.1 is partly that it is untested, and also that some drivers, most notably the UMS version of the ati driver, no longer works with this version. We are currently at version 6.14.6 of the ATI driver, which is the last to not need KMS. This will be updated some time after the ATI KMS work in the kernel is completed, and possibly merged back. This means that this work is probably a year or two (at least) away. If you are adventurous, it is possible to test the ATI KMS work, see https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU for more information. This requires you to install the xf86-video-ati-kms port, which is part of the experimental xorg repo. For more information, see https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg . Regards! -- Niclas