From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 14:19:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEC2106567B for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beni@brinckman.info) Received: from yorgi.telenet-ops.be (yorgi.telenet-ops.be [195.130.133.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03C78FC38 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gerard.telenet-ops.be (gerard.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.48]) by yorgi.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7341680F55 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:07:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from bsdaddict.localnet ([78.23.49.186]) by gerard.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id tS7D1d00P411wW60HS7DaT; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:07:14 +0100 From: beni To: Robert Noland Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:07:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-RELEASE-p2; KDE/4.3.5; i386; ; ) References: <201003141732.01968.beni@brinckman.info> <1268589220.2608.322.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1268589220.2608.322.camel@balrog.2hip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201003151507.13248.beni@brinckman.info> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: radeon hd4650 problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:19:02 -0000 On Sunday 14 March 2010 18:53:40 Robert Noland wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:32 +0100, beni wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running 8.0-RELEASE-p2. > > I am trying to use the radeon (or radeonhd) driver for my Sapphire HD4650 > > card. But it doesn't work. I get a black screen just before the > > logon/login screen should appear. And my pc freezes. I can not get into a > > console with alt-f. The only way out is a cold reset/reboot. > > The only driver working now is Vesa in 1280x1024, but that leaves a black > > border of 7-8 cm on both sides of my 23 inch monitor... > > I asked for help on the OpenSuse mailinglist (i found their email address > > in the Xorg.0.log) but they said it is the drm kernel module that is not > > up to date (see thread on > > http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2010-03/msg00012.html). I manually > > recreated a new /root/xorg.conf.new and copied it to /X11, but with the > > same negative result so far. > > The linux folks don't know much about what is going on in FreeBSD... > Especially not the suse folks. The ATI/AMD folks are fairly aware, > but... > > > I am pasting my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log here. > > Please cc me as i not subscribed to the list. > > Thanks for any help ! > > Beni. > > This is an agp card? This is indeed an agp card. > I have an idea of what is going wrong, but I would like to see an Xorg > log file using the radeon driver to verify. Based on the addresses > reported, I suspect that your ring buffer is being mapped inside of the > framebuffer, which usually appears as corruption along with other odd > issues. If so, I already have patches for that... > > Other possible things to try are to force it into pci mode. > > Option "BusType" "PCI" > > robert. > The Xorg.0.log file was below in the previous mail, under the xorg.conf file. But i can post it pastebin if you want it. Where do i put that option ? In the Section Device ? Thanks for your help ! Beni.