Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:38:24 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MSI RAdeon R4670/512 and xf86-video-ati/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel crashes! Message-ID: <1257770304.27939.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <4AF7EC16.6050707@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4AF7EC16.6050707@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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--=-lHDCv80lctScXit0f3hw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 10:16 +0000, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > > Please respond also to my eMail address, since I'm not subscriber of > these lists! Thanks. > > Since I utilise a MSI Radeon R4670/512 RV730-based graphics card, I'im > incapable of using either > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati or > x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd[-devel] Try updating xf86-video-ati, patch attached. robert. > > The box is a ASUS P5K-Premium based system (Intel P35 chipset, CPU Intel > Q6600), running FreeBSD 8.0-RC2/amd64 successfully. The X11 subsystem > ist the most recent as one can find in the ports collection. I'll attach > the logfile of the currently running Xserver. > > My box got a new 24 inch TFT display so using VESA driver or lower > resolutions than 1920x1200 isn't acceptable. The situation is as follows: > > In all cases it doesn't matter wheter kernel module 'drm.ko' is loaded > or not. > > Driver 'radeon' (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati) crashes the box immediately > without any messages. I can see the xdm-login requester, but just > before this shows up, I realise that the mousepointer sprite gets a kind > of 'distorted', it shows up some 'stripes'. They vanish. When log in and > the desktop is about to show up (using windowmaker), the screen stays > black, the box crahes and in some lucky situations, it reboots, in less > lucky situations it remains frozen. > > Driver 'radeonhd' (xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5_2) works, but without > 'options EXA' and without 'options DRI'. It is bumpy, but shows a > 1920x1200 pixel screen in full colours. > > Driver 'radeonhd' (xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0) doesn't work, it shows the > same behaviour as 'radeon' (xf86-video-ati). I can wathc the mouse > pointer sprite getting striped and a kind of distorted, then the box > crashes. > > Those crashes occur mostly when switching from xdm-login requester to > desktop. In some cases I can switch to the console (pressing > ctrl-alt-[F1--F7]), but at some point, this also freezes/crashes the box. > > I'm a little bit confused, since the ATi-RV730LE chipset is supposed to > be supported. I run another box, an older nVidia CK804-based Athlon3500+ > box equipted with a MSI R4830/512 graphics card. The same base OS > (FreeBSD 8.0-RC2/amd64. The graphics board runs perfectly with ALL(!) > radeon-type drivers, options EXA and DRI enabled, kernel module drm.ko > loaded. > > Can someone help? Since I do not have Windows XP/Vista/7 running on the > box in question, I can not update the firmware of the MSI R4760 with a > potentially existing firmware-update (since those tasks can only be > performed via a special software from MSI running on XP/Vista as far as > I know). > > Thanks in advance, > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-lHDCv80lctScXit0f3hw Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="xf86-video-ati.patch" Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="xf86-video-ati.patch"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.18 Makefile --- Makefile 7 May 2009 19:42:35 -0000 1.18 +++ Makefile 9 Nov 2009 12:36:21 -0000 @@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ # PORTNAME= xf86-video-ati -PORTVERSION= 6.12.2 -PORTREVISION= 1 +PORTVERSION= 6.12.4 CATEGORIES= x11-drivers MAINTAINER= x11@FreeBSD.org Index: distinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/distinfo,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 distinfo --- distinfo 8 Apr 2009 15:18:49 -0000 1.14 +++ distinfo 9 Nov 2009 12:36:21 -0000 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -MD5 (xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2.tar.bz2) = 2bf50461378771497501ca7f678d36f3 -SHA256 (xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2.tar.bz2) = 1beebba17719f7b9bfbbede156dc33a2dd29ed164657badcb62c7149cfae2750 -SIZE (xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.12.2.tar.bz2) = 902480 +MD5 (xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4.tar.bz2) = e662348f6f957fcedf52818d668ab9f5 +SHA256 (xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4.tar.bz2) = cfde066a7087a19b624f79e95cb9a6c97a847b8802cf38d4ae6022758bf338f6 +SIZE (xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4.tar.bz2) = 915124 --=-lHDCv80lctScXit0f3hw--
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