From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 04:49:52 2007 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 9859B16A418 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-74.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-74.bluehost.com [69.89.20.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B35D13C455 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 18721 invoked by uid 0); 18 Dec 2007 04:23:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2007 04:23:12 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J4Tz6-0006vL-0Z for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:23:12 -0700 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBI4NAjH040994 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:23:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lBI4N9Od040993 for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:23:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:23:09 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071218042309.GA40948@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} Subject: radeon driver not working 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: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:49:52 -0000 I'm having some pretty significant issues getting the radeon driver working on my Thinkpad with a Radeon Mobility X300 graphics adapter. Any help would be appreciated. my xorg.conf: http://sob.apotheon.org/img/xorg.conf my Xorg.0.log.old: http://sob.apotheon.org/img/xorg.0.log.old a photo of my laptop screen: http://sob.apotheon.org/img/hosed_screenshot.jpg When I try to use the radeon driver, I get a screen that looks absolutely awful (check above). At first, I can mouse around on the screen, but after a few moments that stops working. I cannot get to a TTY console with Ctrl + Alt + Fn, I cannot kill X to get back to a console via SSH from another machine, and the longer I leave it the more of a runaway process it becomes, so that top ends up reporting something like 120% WCPU. The only way to get the system back is to hold down the power button until it kills the system, then restart it. Oh . . . and it takes several seconds of black screen for the thing to even figure out how to show the hosed-up black-and-white-bars screen in the first place. The ati driver has similar problems (though the ati driver isn't the one I want anyway -- I just figured I'd see if it worked). The vesa driver works fine, though, with the exception of a brief ugly period when I first startx before it figures out how to pain the screen. Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Patrick J. LoPresti: "Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!"