From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 22:04:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B712106564A for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:04:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eivinde@terraplane.org) Received: from mail42.e.nsc.no (mail42.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30638FC16 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rumrunner.mine.nu (ti0027a380-0792.bb.online.no [80.212.66.26]) by mail42.nsc.no (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8DM4GI2020244 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:04:17 +0200 (MEST) Received: from rumrunner.mine.nu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rumrunner.mine.nu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8DM4G3t096841; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:04:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from eivinde@terraplane.org) Received: from localhost (rumrunner@localhost) by rumrunner.mine.nu (8.14.4/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id o8DM4GoJ096838; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:04:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from eivinde@terraplane.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rumrunner.mine.nu: rumrunner owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:04:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Eivind E X-X-Sender: rumrunner@rumrunner.mine.nu To: Roland Smith In-Reply-To: <20100913211408.GA94156@slackbox.erewhon.net> Message-ID: <20100914000102.D96774@rumrunner.mine.nu> References: <20100913191158.M94911@rumrunner.mine.nu> <201009132016.o8DKGmw5053180@lurza.secnetix.de> <20100913211408.GA94156@slackbox.erewhon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: eivinde@terraplane.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:04:20 -0000 On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Eivind E wrote: >> > One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first >> > installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver >> > hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock >> > didn't work, no network (so no ssh) and I couldn't do much but >> > hard reset the machine. I had to use vesa for a while, then, after >> > upgrading, the radeonhd driver worked up until fairly recent upgrades. >> > Sadly I didn't try the driver very often so I don't know if upgrading >> > src or xorg+drivers helped the problem. >> > >> > The machine is now running FreeBSD 8.1, but after rebuilding all >> > packages via ports, the problem with the radeonhd driver is back, >> > showing exactly the same behaviour as before. >> >> Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? >> It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too. > > Keep in mind that normal radeon driver is called x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati > now. > > If you load the drm.ko and radeon.ko (and maybe agp.ko) kernel models with > this driver, you'll have accellerated 3D as well as 2D (both XAA and the newer > EXA). Works like a charm on my Radeon X 1650 Pro, and should work with your > card as well. Tried to substitute the driver with ati and loading radeon.ko (which automatically loaded drm.ko) and had the same results as the plain radeon driver. X starts up once in a while, but the screen goes to about half of normal brightness and the view is moved down and to the right. -- _ _ // \\// Eivind Evensen \/