Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:39:23 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112201431360.9577@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4EF017F9.6010408@herveybayaustralia.com.au> 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> <4EF017F9.6010408@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: > The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon > mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. Sorry, I can't find any specs for a CQ62 with both ATI and NVidia. There's a trademark name for the dual GPU systems, at least the Intel-plus-something-else kind, but I can't recall it. > 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), The start of /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be interesting, both for the version of FreeBSD and the version of xorg-server. I don't think I have anything with dual PCIe X16 slots to test. > 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. Usually it's finding someone able to do the work that's willing to do the work. The Foundation is funding some of that, and I've heard they're interested in getting the KMS for the Radeon driver going.
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