Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:31:46 -0400 From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD/i386 lockups with Xorg & Radeon cards Message-ID: <20050511003146.GA28025@endersgame.net>
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Hello, first let me enumerate the hardware I've seen this happen on: 1) Athlon XP 2700+ 1GB DDR333 ATI Radeon 9200 AGP8X w/ 128MB 2) Athlon XP 2200+ 1GB DDR333 ATI Radeon 7000 AGP4X w/ 32MB ATI Radeon 7500 PCI w/ 32MB 3) Athlon XP 2200+ 1GB DDR333 NVidia GeForce4 AGP8X (I think) w/ 32MB ATI Radeon 7500 PCI w/ 32MB RAM On machine #2 (which is also machine #3), I'm trying to do a dual-head setup. Currently the primary video card is an AGP Geforce4. But that doesn't seem to matter. On all of these setups (9200, 7000, 7500) xorgcfg hardlocks the machine. No matter what I do. Xorg works just fine in Linux on the same hardware. (but no dual-head, despite config hacking, however that is a discussion for elsewhere) XFree86 4.5.0 under NetBSD works just fine with every Radeon on this list. Hence, I'm left to conclude that it's a combination of Xorg and FreeBSD - Windows works, NetBSD works, Linux works. I've tried both 5.3-RELEASE and 5.4-RELEASE, both of them die just as well. I *REALLY* want to get rid of windows on machine #2/#3, but it's simply not an option without a usable dual-headed desktop setup, as that is my work machine. However, if I can't even get xorgcfg to run without the machine needing a three finger salute, it's simply out of the question. I can't run NetBSD or OpenBSD on it, because I need something that I can deploy quickly, with up-to-date binary packages, something that neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD provide. Does anyone have any insights to this problem? Please respond directly, I am not subscribed to either freebsd-ia32 or freebsd-questions. TIA, -Sean
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