From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 17:28:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FE316A400 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 17:28:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDE543D49 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 17:28:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id e2so94568ugf for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:28:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=A9L/2gTQx1RhvfW2811zscss3+0WZooxI+3LcnwyfNe10EhY8e5W+zpvcBuM0NwElobKRyr2RQofGJZlfVFDddK9+ga+FmSCd7ykI4wC2FSjmUx4EPnFGEc9dtxK2E2pfvXPuSucoqGvuugi0svorlokWvMTltZboHl0NvSce/w= Received: by 10.78.39.16 with SMTP id m16mr5611hum; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.31.19 with HTTP; Wed, 3 May 2006 10:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:28:33 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Wilde, Donald" In-Reply-To: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A02397F0B@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A02397F0B@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:28:35 -0000 On 5/3/06, Wilde, Donald wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Nikolas Britton > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:46 PM > To: Alastair G. Hogge > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64 > > On 3/27/06, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > > G'day > > > > Having some problem with Xorg-6.9.0 and the radeon or ati driver on > > mad64 system. X seems to look up at a black screen after setting the > > resolution and then resets the computer. I have drm and radeon defined > > > in my kernel config and I've also added the appropriate lines to > > xorg.conf > > > > This may or may not be relavent... but I have a triple-head setup using > three Radeon cards; 1 agp based 8500LE and 2 pci based 7000/VE's. > > I've never had DRI / X working... The problem(s) you're having sounds > like the problems I was having... Comment out 'Load "dri"' in xorg.conf > and try it again. > > Nikolas, Alistair - > > There is still active work going on in the DRI/DRM section of X.org for > ATI/Radeon. There were some partial fixes posted to FreeDesktop.org's > bugzilla, but they require X 6.9.0-CURRENT. Nikolas' suggestion > (commenting Load "DRI") does work, but I was able to get the DRI to > function (with 3D OpenGL) using CURRENT X (as of two months ago; it may > be even better now.) I can't seem to find any devel snapshots on the xorg website?... and I'm already running 6.9.0 (It's still broken, but fails more gracefully.): xorg-clients-6.9.0_2 xorg-libraries-6.9.0 xorg-server-6.9.0_1 dri-6.4.1,2 gle-3.0.3_2 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/