Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:25:29 +0100 From: "Ryan Avery" <rpavery79@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Xorg *still* hangs with ATI Radeon Mobility M10 (9700) Message-ID: <6adba26c0702071425l6847eafau751dcd89817a7d1d@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello all! I'm going nuts trying to figure out why my video card doesn't work. I have a ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (recognized by Xorg as ATI RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] For detailed background information (including my configuration and conf files), see my december post here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2006-December/003323.html Basically, I have had a heckuva time getting DRI to work on this card. I know r300 support is fairly new, but I see newer x700 and x800 cards that are working. Since this is a laptop, I can't upgrade the card (otherwise I'd go my an nVidia, though I know they have some problems too). I have an ASUS x80k (very similar to the A2000 from what I can tell). In December I was trying 6.2-PRERELEASE with xorg 7.2-RC2 with no luck. I gave up for a while and tried again last night with 6.2-RELEASE on amd64 with xorg from git this morning. Xorg still hung on startup. Then I saw Florent's post on this list about recent commits to the drm source (updating the kernel radeon module to 1.25.0), so I upgraded to 6.2-STABLE a few hours ago and Xorg *still* hung on startup. The same configuration works fine with the vesa driver, and also works with the radeon driver but with dri commented out the xorg.conf, but with this setup I get some intermittent screen corruption in the form of vertical colored lines on the screen. I have only ever had radeon working with DRI once on this laptop, exactly a year ago, with Xorg 6.9.0 on 6.0-STABLE. However, after an upgrade in late February 2006 I've never been able to figure out how to get DRI working again (I even tried downgrading my FreeBSD to 6-STABLE as of 01-Feb-2006 last June, but that still didn't work. So I've stuck with vesa for the last year. This is annoying for watching video since although mplayer -vo sdl plays fullscreen, it's too slow at 1400x1050 resolution. So, I have several questions: 1. Should I try FreeBSD-7-CURRENT? Are there considerable differences in kernel DRM in CURRENT that have not been MFC'ed to 6-STABLE? 2. Does anyone else have this card (RV350 Mobility 9600 M10) working on FreeBSD? If so, what is your configuration? 3. I can't imagine why it'd make a difference, but could it have anything to do with amd64 issues? Should I try i386? I tried it last May but had the same problem. My symptoms seem to be fairly well described by this bug report - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4847. This appeared to be fixed by Ben Herrenschmidt back in December 2005 (** http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-December/011678.html, a later patch was applied to current). This patch was supposed to be applied to ati-6.5.7.2. I know the ati-driver in the git tree is now at 6.6.3. I imaging this patch was merged, but does anyone know more about this? The bug report seems to imply that this card in particular causes trouble, but it looks like the patch should have fixed this as indicated here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-January/012303.html I've been lurking on this list for quite a while - thanks to all of you (especially you, Florent) who are doing the impressive task of getting Xorg-modular into FreeBSD and testing it. I've learned a ton over the last year, and I hope to help out someday (whenever I finish my PhD!). I'm aware that this is likely an Xorg problem, and I may even file a bug report upstream, but for now I'm hoping that some of you gurus can point out something that I may be missing. Thanks for your help! Ryan
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