Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:03:11 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Martin <nakal@web.de> Subject: Re: Xorg/X11 driver Radeon: radeon vs. radeonhd, a mess! Message-ID: <20090415160311.2e898844@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <49E5B1FF.8090606@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <49E4B516.2080901@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090414231839.46d634f2@zelda.local> <49E584F0.5030702@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090415113828.46075cdc@ernst.jennejohn.org> <49E5B1FF.8090606@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:07:59 +0000 "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:55:44 +0000 > > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > >> Martin wrote: > >>> Am Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:08:54 +0200 > >>> schrieb "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>: > >>> > >>>> [...] > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> if you have problems with the radeonhd driver, you should tell the guys > >>> who work at it. They are really nice and try to help everywhere. > >>> > >>> Subscribe there: > >>> http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/ > >>> > >>> I am only using radeonhd, because it works for me on all cards I have. > >>> > >>> I noticed that window movement may get choppy, when you compile a new > >>> kernel (DRM) and don't recompile a fresh radeonhd driver. This happens > >>> especially when DRI is enabled for your xorg server. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Martin > >> As far as I know, radeonhd from ports doesn't work with DRI enabled on > >> FreeBSD - so it doesn't work on my box either. I guess you're following > >> the recommendations using the development brnach directly from GIT. > >> > > > > Works for me on amd64 8-current. > > > > garyj:ernst:~:-bash:4> grep DRI /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI > > (II) Loading extension DRI2 > > (**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI" > > (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Back Buffer at offset 0x024B4000 (size = 0x00B13000) > > (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Depth Buffer at offset 0x02FC7000 (size = 0x00B13000) > > (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Textures at offset 0x03ADA000 (size = 0x0C400000) > > (II) RADEONHD(0): [DRI] installation complete > > (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 > > garyj:ernst:~:-bash:5> ls -d /var/db/pkg/*radeon* > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 14 11:32 /var/db/pkg/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel-1.2.5.20090412 > > > > > > Tried radeonhd-devel and failed also! > > When enabling DRI in config file, I see the XDM login box and the box > crashes and freezes immediately. Without DRI radeonhd-devel is horrible > slow when moving windows around - inacceptable. It doesn't matter > whether EXA is enabled or not and the phenomenon ist the same as with > the regular radeonhd-driver from xorg-drivers. > > I'm back with the VESA driver. Hmm. Are the drm and radeondrm in your kernel up-to-date? Your posting was chopped by the first replier and I can't remember. Can't think of anything else. I personally don't use xdm/gdm/kdm. I just use startx. --- Gary Jennejohn
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