From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 21:32:17 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 23441106566B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mik@pc.dk) Received: from pqueueb.post.tele.dk (pqueueb.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80378FC18 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.235]) by pqueueb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A7780B2 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:07:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from alpha.miknet.dk (0x5738c19d.rdnqu2.dynamic.dsl.tele.dk [87.56.193.157]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9867FA50054 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:06:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:05:08 +0100 From: Martin Kristensen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100210220508.790ee773@alpha.miknet.dk> In-Reply-To: <4B72FC0A.1020701@icyb.net.ua> References: <6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.com> <4B728A7A.60706@gmail.com> <4B72D57D.6080002@icyb.net.ua> <4B72D854.5080902@gmail.com> <1265818363.8609.70.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4B72FB00.3000105@gmail.com> <4B72FC0A.1020701@icyb.net.ua> Organization: Private X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:32:17 -0000 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:33:46 +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 10/02/2010 20:29 Vitaly Magerya said the following: > > Robert Noland wrote: > >>> It is not, and yes I use WITHOUT_HAL. Currently disabling DRI > >>> helps; should I try rebuilding xorg-server with HAL? > >> Yes, you can still disable hal at runtime by setting AutoAddDevices > >> "Off" in xorg.conf. > > > > Seems to work with HAL. > > I've long thought that xorg server should be linked with libthr > regardless of HAL option. Unfortunately, I never came up with patch, > nor have anyone else. Xorg server really uses pthreads when doing DRM > and HAL brings in libthr dependency only as an accident. > This is my first post to this list, so hello all. I have been running with NoAccel for a long time, since disabling DRI alone would cause a complete deadlock (screen to standby, no ssh, no response to keyboard, etc.). However, I rebuilt xorg-server with HAL support, and now simply disabling DRI allows me to start X. The card is RV790 based. -- Martin Kristensen