Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:23:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cox <sailorfred@yahoo.com> To: Albert Vest <alvest@earthlink.net>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X troubles (possibly radeon related) Message-ID: <20060408202352.43452.qmail@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060408161519.b0318c50.alvest@earthlink.net>
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One of my experiments was to upgrade the X.org port without upgrading the kernel/world. That broke my system. There may well be bugs on the vga/radeon drivers that get brought out by the 6.9.0 Xorg upgrade, but no one who has the expertise has yet even responded on the issue. Fred --- Albert Vest <alvest@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:58:40 -0700 (PDT) > Fred Cox <sailorfred@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Several people have reported problems with X.org > 6.9 > > and Radeon X300, which were "solved" by going back > to > > 6.8.2. This includes total machine lockup with > the > > default vga driver as well as various ati and > radeon > > drivers. > > > > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any > visible > > action on the problem. I get no response when I > email > > the Xorg maintainer. > > > > I don't think they want to believe they've broken > > something. They want to blame the drivers. > > They may not be entirely wrong there. Before the > 6.9 ports upgrade, there were some changes in the > /src/sys/dev/drm code about mid-December 2005. I > had DRI working with my X300 before then (9100 IGP, > onboard; mobo only has one expansion slot which is > vanilla PCI so it's my only graphics option), but > after rebuilding system & kernel+modules, it stopped > working again. > > -- > Albert Vest, al vest at earth link dot net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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