Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 07:20:41 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Beryl and xorg 7.2 - RELENG_6 Message-ID: <200706080720.41464.adamk@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200706080716.40614.adamk@voicenet.com> References: <20070607215349.GA2011@genius.tao.org.uk> <20070608105523.GA96664@genius.tao.org.uk> <200706080716.40614.adamk@voicenet.com>
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On Friday 08 June 2007 07:16:40 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 06:55:23 Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:16:12PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > You should be able to get beryl to run with the --use-copy option, but > > > it will be very slow. > > > > > > Currently, the texture_from_pixmap render path (the default for beryl), > > > won't work with the radeon driver as AIGLX is broken on those drivers. > > > Getting it working on intel (also with AIGLX) seems to be hit-or-miss > > > as well. > > > > Ah, thanks - exactly the kind of information I was hoping for. Any word > > on when the radeon drivers will be fixed? How will I be able to find > > out when this has been done; gotta get me some beryl fix. > > > > J > > Just for clarification, AIGLX is broken on the radeon drivers on freebsd. > It does work fine on linux at the moment. Last time I asked around on this > list about the status of AIGLX, I had the very distinct sense that there is > no one actively working on this problem. > > Just so you know, I took another look at your Xorg log file this morning > and see that you have another problem as well: > > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmSetBusid failed (8, pci:0000:01:00.0), Permission > denied > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > > This error shows up in Google a bit, but I'm not seeing one simple > solution. Do you have a DRI section in your xorg.conf file? In mine, I > have: > > Section "DRI" > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > That will give everyone access to direct rendering. > > Did you build the DRM modules from outside of the FreeBSD source tree (ie. > from the DRM git tree)? Some people mention getting the Permission denied > error (on linux) when the DRM modules were compiled with a different > version of gcc than the kernel). > > Adam I forgot to mention, there is a pr open for the AIGLX bug: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112984&cat=
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