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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:33:18 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: radeon regression after xorg update
Message-ID:  <51DD70AE.9020702@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <51DC5225.3060507@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <51DC5225.3060507@FreeBSD.org>

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on 09/07/2013 21:10 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> 
> For a number of reasons I've been postponing the big Xorg upgrade on my radeon
> machine, but I finally did it today.
> 
> My configuration:
> Hardware: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics, which is IGP from 780G/RS780 chipset.
> Software:
> 	xorg-server-1.12.4_1,1
> 	xf86-video-ati-6.14.6

Downgrading xf86-video-ati to 6.14.4 seems to fix the problem.
I haven't tried 6.14.5 yet and 6.14.3 does not appear to work with the current
xorg-server.
Probably this is a good candidate for an upstream bug report.

> I use the official ports tree (as opposed to xorg-dev) and I have
> WITH_NEW_XORG=yes in make.conf.
> 
> One peculiarity of my setup is that I run two X servers.  And the regression is
> exactly about that.
> Until the upgrade everything worked just fine.  But now if I do a direct
> VT-switch from one X-owned terminal to the other, then I get a significant
> chance of my system hanging.
> 
> I see the following things when that happens.
> In Xorg.log I sometimes get (repeated many times):
> (EE) RADEON(0): Timeout trying to update memory controller settings !
> (EE) RADEON(0): You will probably crash now ...
> In system log I sometimes see (repeated many times):
> kernel: info: [drm] wait idle failed status : 0xA0003030 0x00000003
> Sometimes the system just resets without leaving any clues.
> 
> Here is another interesting point.  If first I do a VT-switch to a non-graphic
> (console) terminal and then to the other X terminal, there the problem never
> happens.
> 
> I wonder what could be causing this.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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