Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:01 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon Mobility 9700 hangs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200909111923.01915.adamk@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: <2f5fcc70909111412m735629fcx7f2153ddeec80483@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f5fcc70909111412m735629fcx7f2153ddeec80483@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 11 September 2009 17:12:52 Pedro Azevedo wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed FreeBSD, and PC-BSD as well, and when I try starting X the > screen just goes black and the CPU usage increases a lot, I can't use any > keys, I tried ctrl+alt+f1 but the screen remained black, I had to power > down the computer to get it to reboot. > I tried this on FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x and the results were the same. However > on Linux there were no problems. (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandriva, > CentOS) > I tried getting some help on Freenode, and someone told me the problem > could be FreeBSD's DRM implementation and directed me to this mailling list > for a possible solution. > I realize this isn't the most extensive bug report, but I wasn't able to > get a Xorg.log, still if you can help it's appreciated. Did you attempt to start X with DRI disabled in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf as I suggested? If not, in the Modules section of your xorg.conf file, add these two lines: Disable "dri" Disable "dri2" And then try again. If X then works (as I suspect it will) we will have at least narrowed down the problem to the DRM. Adam
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