Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:43:07 -0400 From: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: eivinde@terraplane.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang Message-ID: <20100916144307.214e3685@linwhf.opal.com> In-Reply-To: <20100916181501.N20886@rumrunner.mine.nu> References: <201009132016.o8DKGmw5053180@lurza.secnetix.de> <20100913234355.I96626@rumrunner.mine.nu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009141512120.54615@wonkity.com> <20100914231728.D5192@rumrunner.mine.nu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009141545420.54725@wonkity.com> <20100915214234.I13301@rumrunner.mine.nu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009152139370.66198@wonkity.com> <20100916181501.N20886@rumrunner.mine.nu>
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:20:35 +0200 (CEST), Eivind E <eivinde@terraplane.org> wrote: > > I'll try another card (not radeon) this evening, and if that works, > I won't bother with the radeon anymore. This is my primary working > machine and I need to be able to use it again. I do however > wish to thank everybody for their hints and suggestions. > > I've had a similar (but not the same problem). My card is an RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] on an Asus M4A785-M motherboard. Problem here was that with either the radeonhd or the ati driver and the radeon.ko module loaded, performance was very slow indeed. One could see the windows being repainted, and xterm scroll was like a 1970's 1200 baud terminal! I found that renaming the radeon.ko module so that it would not be found when X.org goes to auto-load it, then unloading it and restarting X gave me normal performance. However, that came without the benefit of xvideo support. Finally I tried the radeonhd driver from the experimental port in x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel. This works perfectly for me: good performance AND xvideo support. Maybe this will help you too... -jr
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