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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:09:03 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
Cc:        Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>
Subject:   Re: Radeon 7500 w/ DRI locking on restart of X
Message-ID:  <1066961342.22390.21.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <20030827033703.GA90631@gforce.johnson.home>
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On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:37, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:27:11PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:05, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> >
> > > I had similar problem with a 7200 and OGL. I solved the problem by
> > > turning off some of the options in the X config.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:21:56 -0500 (GMT) Sean Welch
> > > <welchsm@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is anyone else seeing this issue?  I'm running into it on desktop
> > > > boxes and a laptop running 4.8-RELEASE with up to date ports
> > > > collections and various versions of DRI installed over a ports
> > > > version of X.  I'm also seeing this under 5.1-RELEASE on the
> > > > laptop.
> > > >
> > > > Everything works perfectly unless/until I restart the X server.
> > > > This appears to be initiated automatically when running GDM -- ie,
> > > > GDM starts, you log in using that X session, you log out and the
> > > > session stops, GDM starts X again and displays the login screen.
> >
> > Everyone that's experiencing this and is using the DRI, what version
> > of the radeon DRM is loaded? (dmesg | grep drm) Is anyone experiencing
> > this without the DRI loaded?  The ForcePCIMode workaround is
> > interesting, I'll take a look at what could be going on there.
> 
> I did some googling tonight and found out this problem is supposedly
> fixed in XFree86-4.3.99 although I do not see any specific mention of
> this problem in the Changelog.  See:
> 
> http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2504&highlight=

That patch has been in our XFree86 for quite a while.  For those of you
using -current, could you try with the latest DRM which I committed to
FreeBSD CVS a few minutes ago?

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org




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