From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 1 12:13:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FAAD37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 12:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C5A43EC5 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 12:13:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <2003010120131800300ld73me>; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:13:18 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h01KFj8S019110 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 12:15:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h01KEPlQ019092; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 12:14:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: X hangups using radeon driver From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 01 Jan 2003 12:14:24 -0800 Message-ID: Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I downloaded a 5.0-RC2 ISO, checked the MD5 against a different mirror's MD5, burned a CD, diff'ed the CD against the ISO, and installed the OS. My first try using the full-GUI X installer failed gracefully (I forget the details). The other two X installers didn't offer to support my video card, so I tried the full-GUI one again. It offered something called "ati". I'm not sure why it said "ati" rather than what my old XF86Config used "radeon", but it seemed close enough. IIRC, it wasn't and I copied over my old XF86Config. Starting X several times after reboots, it would hang up after 30-120 (?) seconds of use. Sometimes ctrl-alt-bs would kill X and sometimes it would require a hard reboot. I did "portupgrade -R XFree86" (after installing my old make.conf which has "CFLAGS= -O -pipe" and "CPUTYPE=k6-2") and still had the problem. I then did a source cvsup (tag=".") and rebuilt world and kernel using well-tested steps. X has not since hung up in about two days (several hours of activity). CPU : AMD K6-2 500MHz with 128 MB RAM. Video : Hightech Information Systems' "Excalibur" (Radeon 7000 with TV-OUT) FreeBSD boot msg: pci1: at 0.0 XFree86 4.2.0 says: ATI Radeon VE QY rev 0 (AGP); framebuffer bpp 32; ChipID = 0x5159; VideoRAM=65536kB; 64-bit DDR SDRAM I have a free partition to do some debugging if there's something I can do in a few hours. I'm no C hacker, but am willing to mess with a debugger a bit. I know how to set up for crash dumps, but that's probably not much help here. Maybe the fact that it works after a cvsup means -RC3 will not hang up, but that's just guessing; maybe my "CPUTYPE=K6-2" fixed it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message