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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:27:20 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: what driver, etc for ATI Radeon HD 3200
Message-ID:  <1251577640.1689.46.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090827164224.GA59319@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <4A96AFC4.9050701@icyb.net.ua> <20090827164224.GA59319@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:42 +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:09:40PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > 
> > Robert, guys,
> > 
> > what driver/software is the best for ATI Radeon HD 3200?
> > I've a motherboard with AMD 780G northbridge that has integrated Radeon HD 3200.
> 
> Both xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd should work, though the latter
> might work a bit better. It looks like your kernel is recent enough; it loads
> the DRM code.
> 
> But AFAIK, 3D support for the R7XX chips (like the HD 3200, an RS780) is still
> in development...
>  
> > This is how recent head kernel sees it:
> > vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xee00-0xeeff mem
> > 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff,0xfde00000-0xfdefffff irq 18 at device
> > 5.0 on pci1
> > drm0: <ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics> on vgapci0
> > vgapci0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported)
> > vgapci0: using IRQ 256 for MSI
> > info: [drm] MSI enabled 1 message(s)
> > vgapci0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x18 type 3 at 0xfdfe0000
> > vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
> > info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.31.0 20080613
> > vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> > vgapci0: Reserved 0x10000000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xd0000000
> > info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> > info: [drm] Loading RS780/RS880 Microcode
> > info: [drm] Resetting GPU
> > info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> > drm0: [MPSAFE]
> > drm0: [ITHREAD]
> > 
> > I currently use radeon driver from xf86-video-ati-6.12.2_1.
> > Log file is here:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/ga-ma780g-ud3h/Xorg.0.log
> 
> You seem to be using AIGLX. That could be part of the problem. Try disabling
> it. 
> 
> Or try using XAA accelleration instead of EXA.
> (Option "AccelMethod" "xaa" )

XAA is almost certainly broken, expecially on r600+ chips.

robert.

> Roland
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
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