From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 09:50:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F111065676 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:50:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210428FC16 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:50:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from [220.237.26.25] (c220-237-26-25.farfl2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.237.26.25]) (authenticated sender horst.burkhardt) by mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9L9oqjS006460 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:50:54 +1100 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20081021022732.GB2578@narn.knownspace> References: <20081021022732.GB2578@narn.knownspace> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-NI4GISelUlwssTcSTHDY" Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:52:46 +1100 Message-Id: <1224582766.10591.57.camel@horst-tla> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Subject: Re: graphics on G4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:50:57 -0000 --=-NI4GISelUlwssTcSTHDY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:27 -0400, Justin Hibbits wrote: > An oddity I've found with FreeBSD/ppc on my G4 MDD -- when I do anything = with > graphics, after a while the whole machine just hangs when I try to spawn = a new > process. It's not a deterministic problem, it just happens 'eventually',= but > nearly 100% of the time it does happen -- when I start X or play with the > framebuffer directly (mmap(2) of /dev/tty or /dev/mem with the offset of = the > video card). Has anyone else run into this problem? I haven't tried wit= h the > latest -CURRENT, but every kernel from January through August that I've b= uilt of > -CURRENT has exhibited this problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 mac editi= on, in > a MDD w/ 1.25GB RAM. >=20 > - Justin Not sure if this is related, but I get the same thing on my G4 GbE/ADC when starting X - blank screen, then C-M-BS doesn't return syscons, nor does anything else. strangely enough if I type 'shutdown -h now' on a known root console, the system shuts down. I do experience a display hanng though. I only know this to be an issue with X - I haven't played with anything else yet.=20 (7.1-BETA, -CURRENT unknown.)=20 ATi Rage 128 Pro.=20 Also, Justin, I envy you your machine. It sounds frickin' sweeeeeet. :) -- Horst --=-NI4GISelUlwssTcSTHDY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkj9pm4ACgkQRtTtv0BbTe7QYACfWqHdlGgiv2xv6IhFXe8UX7bw scgAn36ZxWnIxW53WD37SUFktgh/tkBO =BXR2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NI4GISelUlwssTcSTHDY--