Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:07:05 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev Message-ID: <4EF017F9.6010408@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112192130140.1741@wonkity.com> References: <4EEF208F.1060100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EEF3183.3060907@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112190950450.96861@wonkity.com> <4EEFB89D.1030103@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112192130140.1741@wonkity.com>
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On 12/20/11 14:33, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: > >>> Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with >>> one from another vendor for higher performance. There's >>> hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in >>> FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. >>> There should still be two video outputs. >>> >>> More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is >>> also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: >>> (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support >> It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty >> quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing >> by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. >> >> What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a >> problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI >> card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and >> that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... > > It's difficult to tell what you're saying. It's possible that > multiple cards would work in some combinations, and just that the ones > I tried did not. Also, you're talking about two systems, a laptop and > a desktop. So it would be good to get some specifics, like laptop > brand and model, whether the desktop dual-card setup worked with > FreeBSD (and which version of FreeBSD). NP. I thought I was clear, but I'm not always coherent when I communicate (apparently... just ask the missus :) ). The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. The HTPC/desktop is a whitebox quad core phenom on a ASUS MB (not 100% sure which) with a NVidia onboard pcie GPU, and an ATI Radeon 3450. There could be yet another GPU on there, but I can't remember. That system is running 8.x FBSD (1 or 2- can't quite remember), and the laptop I'm installing 9.0-RC3 on, with the view to using freebsd-update to RELEASE, because of the lack of Atheros 9285 support in 8.x (tried for hours, just couldn't get the bird to fly :( ). From what I understand now, having been able assimilate what has been discussed here and through google, it seems there is a conflict when dealing with multiple onboard GPUs. What exactly is the issue with getting an arbiter for FreeBSD? Aside from time, naturally.
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