Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:11:45 +0100 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon 9550 + R300 DRM + Xorg 6.9 = freeze Message-ID: <20060122051145.ED3D017033@radagast.ijs.si> References: <200601212325.54004.nb_root@videotron.ca>
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Nicolas Blais wrote: > Not my lucky day :) > > After upgrading my Xorg port to 6.9.0, my -CURRENT freezes at launch of > kdm. I'm able to do nothing with the system (can't exit to debugger, can't > ssh to > it). Running top in another tty while loading X at the same time shows > that Xorg uses 99.9% of WCPU. > > Checking around, I found that the actual freeze was due to Xorg using the > R300 microcode (commenting out the Load "glx" and Load "dri" in xorg.conf > makes X work again). > > I'm lost as to where to start debugging this as I cannot ssh, > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or get a dump during that freeze. Since it causes a > crash, anything logged on the harddrive is lost (no sync done...) > > I tried running xorgcfg (graphic mode) to see if it would record something > useful in Xorg.8.log and I have it attached. For some reason, X detects my > lcd as having a max res of 1280x1024, but tries to open a display for > 1600x1200 which only makes my screen show an "Out of Resolution" message. > My console shows a message similar to "R300 Microcode loaded". I can > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace out of X. > > I've tried both dri and dri-devel with no luck. > > So I resume: > 1. Xorg 6.9.0 + R300 DRM + dri causes freeze > 2. Disable dri+glx in Xorg.conf makes X work again (without drm) > 3. xorgcfg tries to start in 1600x1200 for a screen capable of only > 1280x1024, rendering it useless. > > Anyone using a R300 powered card (Radeon 9550/9600) with DRM+Xorg 6.9.0 > out there? > > dmesg: > vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem > 0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xfbe00000-0xfbe0ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 > drm0: <ATI Radeon AS 9600 AS> on vgapci0 > info: [drm] AGP at 0xe0000000 64MB > info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.19.0 20050911 > vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem > 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff,0xfbf00000-0xfbf0ffff at device 0.1 on pci1 Somewhat like this: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-January/012303.html ? You can try the mentioned patch by putting patch-radeon from here: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg/patch-radeon in x11-servers/xorg-server/files directory and reinstalling xorg-server port. Dejan
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