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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:49:17 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org>, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so
Message-ID:  <4B72D57D.6080002@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4B728A7A.60706@gmail.com>
References:  <6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.com> <4B728A7A.60706@gmail.com>

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on 10/02/2010 12:29 Vitaly Magerya said the following:
> Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to
>> deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue,
>> as others wrote them at freebsd-x11:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009370.html
> 
> I have a similar problem with ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (r250) and
> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 (dmesg is at [1]). The system hangs when I
> run Xorg with xorg.conf obtained by `Xorg -configure' and do either of
> these:
> 
> * pkill Xorg
> * close xorg via ^C and start it again
> * close xorg via ^C and kldunload radeon
> 
> I did not try using 'option "DRI" "OFF"' though, I will this evening.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't currently say if it works under different
> conditions, since after a number of hangs I switched to VESA. But if
> anyone is interested, I'll investigate further and will provide any
> additional information -- just name it.

Please check if your X binary is linked with libthr (using ldd).
I saw similar problems when it was not.
That was because it was compiled without HAL support.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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