Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:51:45 -0400 From: Eddie Leisure <eddie@angryeddie.cn> To: Pedro Azevedo <pazevedo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon Mobility 9700 hangs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4AAAD481.9000009@angryeddie.cn> In-Reply-To: <2f5fcc70909111412m735629fcx7f2153ddeec80483@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f5fcc70909111412m735629fcx7f2153ddeec80483@mail.gmail.com>
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Pedro Azevedo wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed FreeBSD, and PC-BSD as well, and when I try starting X the > screen just goes black and the CPU usage increases a lot, I can't use any > keys, I tried ctrl+alt+f1 but the screen remained black, I had to power down > the computer to get it to reboot. > I tried this on FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x and the results were the same. However > on Linux there were no problems. (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandriva, > CentOS) > I tried getting some help on Freenode, and someone told me the problem could > be FreeBSD's DRM implementation and directed me to this mailling list for a > possible solution. > I realize this isn't the most extensive bug report, but I wasn't able to get > a Xorg.log, still if you can help it's appreciated. > > Regards, > Pedro Azevedo If this is a new install, also sure to add hald_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf as x uses hal to detect your hardware. Something that might be useful here to see whats going on is to launch X using: X -verbose -probeonly This will show you what hardware/drivers and screen modes it's detecting. It'll also show you problems if it has any. Also, you want to make sure you have a compatible video driver is installed. 'vesa' usually works, but barely. Check out /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-* - if you know what your hardware is, it should be simple to figure out what driver you need. Not sure how helpful this would be as it seems like PC-BSD should already have hal enabled and the more common drivers already available. At least this is a place to start. Eddie
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