Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:48:18 -0500 From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon troubles Message-ID: <547A4D32.1060908@gmx.us> In-Reply-To: <21626.13780.862592.172498@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <21626.13780.862592.172498@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On 11/29/14 16:08, John F. Carr wrote: > > A Radeon HD 5450 (now installed) and an older Radeon behave the same. > Both are PCIe cards. The kernel says "[drm] RADEON_IS_PCIE" if I start X. > > There are two problems: > > 1. When X exits the screen never switches back to console mode. > It freezes with the image on the X server when it exits. The text > console is running behind the frozen graphics. I can login blind as > root and reboot. I can rerun xinit and see my compressed windows > again. But I can't see the console. (I don't use graphical login. > I log in on the console and run xinit.) > > 2. On a PA272W 2560x1440 monitor the image is horizontally compressed > into the middle half of the screen. The image is mangled as I would > if half of the pixels were dropped. I think it is trying to display > 2560 pixels but setting up some mode parameters wrong. On a lower > resolution monitor the image is fine, but see item 1. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > John - I'm not sure this will help (because I'm not sure which list archive you are referring to), but this thread[1] goes through most of the issues to check-off for this issue and the 5450 card. [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=178836+182611+/usr/local/www/db/text/2014/freebsd-x11/20141116.freebsd-x11
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