Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:02:45 +0100 (CET) From: "Torgeir Hoffmann" <twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no> To: Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> Cc: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Luke Dean <luked@pobox.com> Subject: Re: X.org-update -> screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf? Message-ID: <f8592e0c044f05d1b8fea509f231b475.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <1bd550a00902021020y7ecc02doe8c3859997e5b61@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090130144614.GA4897@aurora.oekb.co.at> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901301101050.94462@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> <20090202163647.GD2908@aurora.oekb.co.at> <1bd550a00902021020y7ecc02doe8c3859997e5b61@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: >>> >>> Me too. >>> I started a thread a few days ago titled "Restarting new Xorg freezes >>> system". >>> My symptoms are the same as yours. >>> I'm not running hald at all. >>> I'm not using full-blown gnome, just windowmaker. >>> I'm using the "radeon" driver on an ATI HD 4350 >>> >>> I just tried switching to the "vesa" driver, and now I can stop and >>> start >>> X as much as I want with no problems whatsoever. >>> I know that this was not a problem with the "radeon" driver prior to >>> the >>> Xorg update. >> >> Hi, >> >> Did a few tests more: >> >> 1) Section "ServerLayout" >> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" >> Section "Device" >> Driver "radeon" >> moused running >> hald running >> >> Result: X (gnome in my case) starts, mouse moves. Upon leaving X the >> console is to something different than 80x25 lines - at least I can't >> see about 2-3 lines on the bottom of the screen. However - as soon as >> a start X again I get graphical junk on the display, mouse & keyboard >> frozen, no switching of consoles nor can I log in via the net (ssh) > > Just for the record, this used to happen in Linux (Fedora 9) but it's > working since some time ago (sorry, I don't remember when this was > fixed) > radeon now works and doesn't freeze if you try to bring the X Server up > again. > > I'm using Xorg 7.4 too Just wanted to say that I experienced similar problems quite some months ago, and posted under the title: "Re: [FreeBSD 7] Radeon Mobility M10/9600 + xorg 7.3 + ati/radeon driver causes complete system hang/freeze". I never got it to work, and that was with xorg 7.3. Also, everything worked with vesa. I tried everything from disabling most things in rc.conf, most modules, dri in xorg.conf. I tried deleting the renaming the log for xorg, and then you could most of the times start xorg once, but not twice. The second time would result in a black screen. (of course removing the log and the following effect is most likely random). I had an idea that it might be that the drm-implementation wasn't able to load the microcode (?) for the r300 correctly sometimes, but this is guesswork at best. Is it possible that this is a bug partly related to xorg, but more related to the radeon driver and freebsd that slipped through in the last bug-hunting? > However, I experience the same problems in my system (ATI RadeonHD > 2400 with FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2) > > >> >> >> 2) Same as 1) above however this time with >> Driver "radeonhd" >> >> Result: Almost the same as 1) above - only difference: When I leave X >> the console comes back again to 80x25 lines. Hoever - like in 1) above >> - the second attempt to start X ends in a machine completely frozen :-( >> >> 3) Same as 1) - this time with >> Driver "vesa" >> >> Result: Everything works - i.e. back and forth between X and >> console. Sure enough working with Vesa is a workaround only given the >> huge difference in speed between the Vesa- and radeon drivers. >> >> >> 4) Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" under 'Section "ServerLayout"' >> with >> Driver "radeonhd" >> >> Result: X works only once (as in Tests 1&2 above). Second attempt to >> start X gives a "frozen box" again. >> >> >> >> As you already mentioned >> >> o) no problem with VESA-Driver >> >> o) no problems with radeon-driver prior to the Upgrade to X 7.4 >> >> >> Hope this helps someone out there to track things down. //Torgeir
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