Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:20:46 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Subject: Re: X.org-update -> screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf? Message-ID: <1bd550a00902021020y7ecc02doe8c3859997e5b61@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090202163647.GD2908@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20090130144614.GA4897@aurora.oekb.co.at> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901301101050.94462@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> <20090202163647.GD2908@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: >> >> Me too. >> I started a thread a few days ago titled "Restarting new Xorg freezes >> system". >> My symptoms are the same as yours. >> I'm not running hald at all. >> I'm not using full-blown gnome, just windowmaker. >> I'm using the "radeon" driver on an ATI HD 4350 >> >> I just tried switching to the "vesa" driver, and now I can stop and start >> X as much as I want with no problems whatsoever. >> I know that this was not a problem with the "radeon" driver prior to the >> Xorg update. > > Hi, > > Did a few tests more: > > 1) Section "ServerLayout" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > Section "Device" > Driver "radeon" > moused running > hald running > > Result: X (gnome in my case) starts, mouse moves. Upon leaving X the > console is to something different than 80x25 lines - at least I can't > see about 2-3 lines on the bottom of the screen. However - as soon as > a start X again I get graphical junk on the display, mouse & keyboard > frozen, no switching of consoles nor can I log in via the net (ssh) Just for the record, this used to happen in Linux (Fedora 9) but it's working since some time ago (sorry, I don't remember when this was fixed) radeon now works and doesn't freeze if you try to bring the X Server up again. I'm using Xorg 7.4 too However, I experience the same problems in my system (ATI RadeonHD 2400 with FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2) > > > 2) Same as 1) above however this time with > Driver "radeonhd" > > Result: Almost the same as 1) above - only difference: When I leave X > the console comes back again to 80x25 lines. Hoever - like in 1) above > - the second attempt to start X ends in a machine completely frozen :-( > > 3) Same as 1) - this time with > Driver "vesa" > > Result: Everything works - i.e. back and forth between X and > console. Sure enough working with Vesa is a workaround only given the > huge difference in speed between the Vesa- and radeon drivers. > > > 4) Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" under 'Section "ServerLayout"' > with > Driver "radeonhd" > > Result: X works only once (as in Tests 1&2 above). Second attempt to > start X gives a "frozen box" again. > > > > As you already mentioned > > o) no problem with VESA-Driver > > o) no problems with radeon-driver prior to the Upgrade to X 7.4 > > > Hope this helps someone out there to track things down. > > -ewald > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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