Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:07:06 +0000 From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, x11@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so Message-ID: <6101e8c41002101007k75fe6348t589d8cc0ea0756c2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1265763880.8609.17.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.com> <4B71FFA8.3070306@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <1265763880.8609.17.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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this card is radeon hd3450
vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0xe400174b chip=0x95c51002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'HD 3400 Series (Radeon)'
class = display
subclass = VGA
hdac0@pci0:1:0:1: class=0x040300 card=0xaa28174b chip=0xaa281002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'Radeon HD 3400 Series (3400)'
class = multimedia
subclass = HDA
On 2/10/10, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 01:36 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> On 02/10/10 00:24, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to
>> > deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue,
>> > as others wrote them at freebsd-x11:
>> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009370.html
>> >
>> > The symptoms:
>> > * independent from enabled or disabled DRI or GLX, first I think, this
>> > is the error, but not
>> > * the system going to deadlock state
>> > * no coredumps of xorgs
>> > * no panic, but the system is unusuable
>> > * independent from the driver: probed the radeon and radeonhd driver
>> > * independent from the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU or WITH_NOUVEAU compile options
>> > (make.conf)
>> > * the system is: FreeBSD peonia.teteny.bme.hu 7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
>> > 7.3-PRERELEASE #29 r203612+fa83fdf: Mon Feb 8 02:11:08 CET 2010
>> > root@peonia.teteny.bme.hu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/stable amd64
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>>
>> I had a similar freezing on several FreeBSD 8.0 boxes with either
>> 'radeon' or 'radeonhd/radeonhd-devel' with recent ports. With more
>> expensive graphics cards, like HD4830, HD4850 we never had the issue,
>> but with smaller cards, like HD4670. HD4670 never worked. HD4770 cards
>> work with explicit set
>>
>> option "DRI" "OFF"
>>
>> As far as I know, WITHOUT_NOUVEAU does have no effect on the current
>> ports, since it is reported in ports/UPDATING, it prevents building
>> nouveau driver which is broken when using newer libdrm/dri and libGLUT,
>> but those new ports do not seem to be merged into the tree.
>>
>> The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive
>> AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper
>> one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if one
>> uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and I have no reason using
>> Linux-driver on a FreeBSD box. Hope the situation gets cleared in the
>> nearest future. It's a kind of deadlock. As I said, either spenig a lot
>> of money for a working RV770 based AMD graphics card with poor
>> functionality or nothing so far, since most smaller RV730 chips aren't
>> supported properly by the most recent drivers.
>
> I'm only aware of one issue which leads to corruption. I have patches
> that resolve that issue which are not yet committed. If your are
> experiencing lockups with DRI disabled, then something very strange is
> going on and you will need to provide more details. I don't remember
> exactly what drm code I have committed to 7 right now, but it should be
> fairly current as I don't think I have much in the way of outstanding
> MFCs. The current drm and radeon drivers work on every card that I
> have, which in the r600 class are HD 3650,3850,4650.
>
> robert.
>
>> Regards,
>> Oliver
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> --
> Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
> FreeBSD
>
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