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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:55:31 +0200
From:      "thorsten.johannvorderbrueggen@t-online.de" <thorsten.johannvorderbrueggen@t-online.de>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD A6-4455M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics in 50% leads to a black screen when starting X
Message-ID:  <20200428195531.4ef371260626ce6a7248368b@t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <20200428070718.GA78285@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20200427173331.5b1191af406ca2bc4492679f@t-online.de> <20200428070718.GA78285@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:07:18 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 05:33:31PM +0200, thorsten.johannvorderbrueggen@t=
-online.de wrote:
> > Hi @all,
> >=20
> > i have a [AMD A6-4455M based] Samsung NP535U3C-A02DE Laptop and i
> > installed FreeBSD 12.1 on it ... so far so good :-) ... before that i
> > had void-linux on it ... it worked with any trouble ... especially X
> >=20
> > With FreeBSD i have a 50/50 chance to get a black screen at the end...
> > the sytems starts ... loader starts ... the kernel starts ... it
> > detects drm and so but then it switches the resolution to 1366x768 ...
> > this takes some time (10-15 sec)
>=20
> I'm having similar issues with A8-5550M, none of the drm-* ports work
> reliably on it.  It usually locks up with black screen, or even if it
> manages to load, X.Org falls back to software rendering.
>=20
> > [drm:r600_ring_test] radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=3D0xCA=
FEDEAD)
> > [drm:cayman_resume] cayman startup failed on resume
> > [drm:radeon_dp_link_train_cr] displayport link status failed
> > [drm:radeon_dp_link_train_cr] clock recovery failed
> > drmn0: ring 0 stalled for more than 10495msec
> > drmn0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000001 last fence id 0x=
0000000000000002 on ring 0)
> > drmn0: ring 0 stalled for more than 11026msec
>=20
> I believe these "stalled" lines are related to the 10-20 seconds delay
> during initialization.  Something got broken in Northern Islands cards
> support in recent years, it was definitely working two or three years
> ago (fast module loading, no crashes, hw-accelerated rendering).  I'm
> slowly bisecting and trying different versions of the DRM ports, but
> that can take months...  I have no good news or answers at this moment.
No problem ... i`m happy that someone takes care and trys to find a solutio=
n ...=20
At the weekend i try the 11.3 release ... and then 10.4 ... and inform you
about the result ... then we have at least a hint from where to compare to =
:-)
>=20
> /danfe
If i can do more, let me know ... but pls keep in mind, that the last time =
i used=20
FreeBSD was with 4.x and 5.x :-) ...=20

Cheers
   Thorsten


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