Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:28:33 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Wilde, Donald" <dwilde@sandia.gov> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64 Message-ID: <ef10de9a0605031028l1a35c961t1ef1126377c7407f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A02397F0B@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> References: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A02397F0B@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>
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On 5/3/06, Wilde, Donald <dwilde@sandia.gov> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Nikolas Britton > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:46 PM > To: Alastair G. Hogge > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64 > > On 3/27/06, Alastair G. Hogge <agh@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > G'day > > > > Having some problem with Xorg-6.9.0 and the radeon or ati driver on > > mad64 system. X seems to look up at a black screen after setting the > > resolution and then resets the computer. I have drm and radeon defined > > > in my kernel config and I've also added the appropriate lines to > > xorg.conf > > > > This may or may not be relavent... but I have a triple-head setup using > three Radeon cards; 1 agp based 8500LE and 2 pci based 7000/VE's. > > I've never had DRI / X working... The problem(s) you're having sounds > like the problems I was having... Comment out 'Load "dri"' in xorg.conf > and try it again. > > Nikolas, Alistair - > > There is still active work going on in the DRI/DRM section of X.org for > ATI/Radeon. There were some partial fixes posted to FreeDesktop.org's > bugzilla, but they require X 6.9.0-CURRENT. Nikolas' suggestion > (commenting Load "DRI") does work, but I was able to get the DRI to > function (with 3D OpenGL) using CURRENT X (as of two months ago; it may > be even better now.) I can't seem to find any devel snapshots on the xorg website?... and I'm already running 6.9.0 (It's still broken, but fails more gracefully.): xorg-clients-6.9.0_2 xorg-libraries-6.9.0 xorg-server-6.9.0_1 dri-6.4.1,2 gle-3.0.3_2 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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