Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:03:13 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: "dt71@gmx.com" <dt71@gmx.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600 Message-ID: <CAN6yY1srKzZcrA3OrYOkG5KePALmGbBLhwRNme_TbriC2y1kmg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C7DDC881-C320-4C7D-B869-A9273429AF47@freebsd.org> References: <527F95BE.7080908@gmx.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1311101135590.9459@sea.ntplx.net> <527FC05D.8080703@gmx.com> <C7DDC881-C320-4C7D-B869-A9273429AF47@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2013, at 12:20 PM, dt71@gmx.com wrote: > > > > Daniel Eischen wrote, On 11/10/2013 17:40: > >> My -current is still from ~July 3, and I also got panics > >> when trying new Xorg. Take the drm devices out of your > >> kernel configuration and let X load the necessary drm2 > >> devices when it starts. This allowed it to work for me. > > > > Hmm, works for me to avoid panics and hard reboots. Problems: > > 1. Switching to the virtual terminals or shutting down X causes the > display to go black and unrevivable -- a (soft) reboot is necessary. > > 2. A 3D application crashes with SIGBUS, and the stack gets toasted. > > Yes, I can get it to crash also when using a Java-based GUI, but it works > for all the basic X apps that I need. I also have the virtual terminal > switching problem also, but I think that is being addressed with newsyscons. > > It really does suck not having a functional X. > > For the record, newcons (not newsyscons) is available for testing. I'll admit that I have not tried it, but there have been quite a few positive reports on it. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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