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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:56:59 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        beni <beni@brinckman.info>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATI HD 4650 (RV730) driver ?
Message-ID:  <20100102155659.GB22645@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <201001021616.46506.beni@brinckman.info>
References:  <4b3f43fb.122.331b.1018148892@edpnet.org> <20100102140200.GA21212@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <201001021616.46506.beni@brinckman.info>

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On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 04:16:46PM +0100, beni wrote:
> I am running 7.2-stable :
> [beni@bsdaddict /usr/home/beni]$ uname -v
> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #3: Mon Oct  5 10:30:23 EDT 2009    =20
> kris@pcbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSD.i386
> [beni@bsdaddict /usr/home/beni]$

I'm not sure if this is recent enough. During the 7-STABLE cycle there was a
merge of updated DRM code, but I don't recall when it was...

> But still nothing with the xserver... I changed the driver in xorg.conf D=
evice=20
> Section to radeon and radeonhd, but all i get is :
> [beni@bsdaddict /usr/home/beni]$ tail /var/log/messages
> Jan  2 16:00:23 bsdaddict kdm-bin[6995]: X server for display :0 cannot b=
e=20
> started, session disabled
> Jan  2 16:00:25 bsdaddict kdm-bin[7015]: X server died during startup
> Jan  2 16:00:25 bsdaddict kdm-bin[7015]: X server for display :0 cannot b=
e=20
> started, session disabled
> Jan  2 16:00:27 bsdaddict kdm-bin[7035]: X server died during startup
> Jan  2 16:00:27 bsdaddict kdm-bin[7035]: X server for display :0 cannot b=
e=20
> started, session disabled
> Jan  2 16:00:27 bsdaddict init: getty repeating too quickly on port=20
> /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs

Unfortunately this does not give any relevant information. What does the
logfile /var/log/Xorg.0.log say about the cause of the failure?=20

(When trying stuff it is better to use startx (or startkde or whatever it's
 instead of gdm, IMHO.)

> But you use the xf86-video-ati driver and not the xf86-video-radeonhd dri=
ver ?

Yes. I've had trouble with OpenGL apps freezing the server with radeonhd.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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