Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:04:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Eivind E <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang Message-ID: <20100914000102.D96774@rumrunner.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20100913211408.GA94156@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20100913191158.M94911@rumrunner.mine.nu> <201009132016.o8DKGmw5053180@lurza.secnetix.de> <20100913211408.GA94156@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Eivind E <eivinde@terraplane.org> wrote: >> > One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first >> > installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver >> > hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock >> > didn't work, no network (so no ssh) and I couldn't do much but >> > hard reset the machine. I had to use vesa for a while, then, after >> > upgrading, the radeonhd driver worked up until fairly recent upgrades. >> > Sadly I didn't try the driver very often so I don't know if upgrading >> > src or xorg+drivers helped the problem. >> > >> > The machine is now running FreeBSD 8.1, but after rebuilding all >> > packages via ports, the problem with the radeonhd driver is back, >> > showing exactly the same behaviour as before. >> >> Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? >> It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too. > > Keep in mind that normal radeon driver is called x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati > now. > > If you load the drm.ko and radeon.ko (and maybe agp.ko) kernel models with > this driver, you'll have accellerated 3D as well as 2D (both XAA and the newer > EXA). Works like a charm on my Radeon X 1650 Pro, and should work with your > card as well. Tried to substitute the driver with ati and loading radeon.ko (which automatically loaded drm.ko) and had the same results as the plain radeon driver. X starts up once in a while, but the screen goes to about half of normal brightness and the view is moved down and to the right. -- _ _ // \\// Eivind Evensen \/
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