From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 12 15:47:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DB31065670; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:47:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66D68FC08; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-156-16-112.bna.bellsouth.net [70.156.16.112]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBCFlMi8060133 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:47:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: greg@rowes.org In-Reply-To: References: <200912111614.47417.greg@rowes.org> <4B22C93D.9000208@icyb.net.ua> <4B2317CF.5080900@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:47:17 -0600 Message-Id: <1260632837.2281.33.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC, SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, 'John Baldwin' , 'Andriy Gapon' Subject: RE: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:47:26 -0000 On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:28 -0500, Greg Rowe wrote: > My system has a Gigabyte Radeon HD4850 1GB PCI Express Card in it. The main > board is an ASUS P5N7A-VM, 4GB ram (tested with 2GB also), Intel Core 2 Duo > E6850, on-board video disabled in the BIOS, and the BIOS is flashed to > ASUS's latest release. I'm using a single monitor off the DVI port. > > I'm running the ATI Radeon driver as it works well with the exception of > DRI. I've tried the released and development version of the RadeonHD driver > but both pretty much lock up X. Whether it helps or not, the background > garbage on the screen I see with the ATI driver is more visible with the hd > drivers and it's the ASUS Bios splash screen in tiny font many times across > the screen. Dmesg and Memcontrol.list from Xorg with DRI enabled is > attached. Please send "pciconf -lvb". In your case, it looks like the framebuffer may be cached which would likely be the reason that you are seeing bits of the bios screen showing up. robert. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Polyack [mailto:korvus@comcast.net] > > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:11 PM > > To: Andriy Gapon > > Cc: Greg Rowe; rnoland@freebsd.org; freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; John Baldwin > > Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE > > > > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > on 11/12/2009 23:14 Greg Rowe said the following: > > > > > >> Robert, > > >> I tried the pagezero patch (applied, rebuilt kernel, rebooted, Xorg > > with DRI > > >> enabled) on my system with the Radeon HD4850 and it didn't change > > anything. > > >> See the attached. Thanks. > > >> > > > > > > Greg, Steve, could you please describe your systems some more? > > > Type of CPU, if this is SMP. > > > Providing a link to your dmesg should be helpful. > > > 'memcontrol list' output could be useful too. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > I have yet to try the patch, but my system is a a ~3Ghz Pentium 4 with > > Hyperthreading enabled. Intel chipset (not sure which, but the USB/SATA > > are the ICH7) with onboard graphics. The Radeon 9250 is a PCI add-on. > > I'm also using both outputs on the card (1 VGA, 1 DVI). I've attached > > the output of 'dmesg' and 'pciconf -l -v'. > -- Robert Noland FreeBSD