Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:59:08 -0700 From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Radeon r6/7xx drm code to be committed Message-ID: <3c1674c90903130959s180da92cu5b91b2154b51fdfe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49BA22CD.9030809@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <1236372641.1671.11.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <18869.10411.538031.500651@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20090309170833.42069a98@ernst.jennejohn.org> <18869.16614.1547.140164@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1236617617.1680.17.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <cbd5e83705df83da94ccf77e469e9e29.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> <3c1674c90903091036q4585519aja68d7f9bcd350010@mail.gmail.com> <49B961B7.6020303@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <3c1674c90903121400s10c517f3i9714272d20a4ddc2@mail.gmail.com> <49BA22CD.9030809@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Are you using the radeonhd from git? I needed to use that to get it to work.
-Kip
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:09 AM, O. Hartmann
<ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> My private box is a UP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 equipted with a MSI HD4830
> (RV770). On this machine with the most recent OS and the most recent
> xorg-7.4 compiled from the ports,
>
> Driver 'radeonhd'
>
> does not work, the tty does never show up login screen. It seems the driver
> does not recognise the GPU. Also on this box, enabling
>
> Option 'DRI'
>
> doesn't work. When getty tries to start xdm on the specific tty, Xserver
> can't be started - there is a error message on console coming from [drm],
> saying something about 'idle'. I never caught this.
>
> On my lab's box, a SMP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 with the most recent
> xorg-7.4 as mentioned above, equippted with a MSI HD4670 (RV730),
>
> Driver 'radeonhd'
>
> works, but shows up weird behaviour sometimes (crashing), so I switchd to
>
> Driver 'radeon'.
>
> But also on this box, enabling
>
> Option 'DRI'
>
> does not let X come up.
>
> Either way, with radeonhd or radeon, ending a X session (I use windowmaker),
> seems crashing X and then locking up/crashing the whole box. Also very
> boring is the fact, that I can't swtch to the console via
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F{1-8}
>
> althought this is explicitely enabled in the config. I see 'nothing' but a
> black screen, the console is definitely changing, I can change back to the X
> screen, but never to a console. This behaviour is both on FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE
> (most recent before I switched these days to 8.0-CURRENT on that box) and
> 8.0-CURRENT! I guess this is a serious issue in Xorg 7.4 and/or the Radeon
> driver.
>
> It is also very surprising, that on the slower UP FreeBSD box with the
> faster GPU (RV770), X is much(!) faster than on the faster SMP FreeBSD box
> with the slower GPU (RV730). On both systems DRI is not enabled and both
> boxes do not load modules 'drm' and 'radeon'.
>
> Kip Macy wrote:
>>
>> radeon locks up my system, use radeonhd
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM, O. Hartmann
>> <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kip Macy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have an HD4850 and it works well. Unfortunately it is the one from
>>>> ASUS where only one port does dual-link.
>>>>
>>>> -Kip
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos
>>>> <matheus@eternamente.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, March 9, 2009 13:53, Robert Noland wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > > This should work on pretty much all Radeon r600+ cards (and
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> older
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > > stuff as well). With the appropriate X drivers, you should
>>>>>>>> get
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> EXA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > > accelleration and Xv. 3d is not available yet, afaik.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is kernel code and has nothing directly to do with ports.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me be more specific.
>>>>>>> Assuming I'm using a 3850, which I believe is the RV670
>>>>>>> chipset, is there anything I will need to change in xorg.conf (or
>>>>>>> elsewhere) to take advantage of/not break the new code?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> rv670 is what I'm testing on... I tried to put a few details in the
>>>>>> commit message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically, for R600+ you have to force DRI on for the moment. You
>>>>>> should also be using exa.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, right now, I'm using radeonhd from git master, with :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Driver "radeonhd"
>>>>>> VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
>>>>>> BoardName "RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850]"
>>>>>> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
>>>>>> Option "DRI"
>>>>>> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>>>>>> Option "Audio"
>>>>>> EndSection
>>>>>>
>>>>>> robert.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Robert Huff
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>>> FreeBSD
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm planning to move from nVidia to ATi, and all this work is what
>>>>> makes
>>>>> me do that. This code you're talking about, would benefit a HD4850 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> matheus
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> We will call you cygnus,
>>>>> The God of balance you shall be
>>>>>
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>>> I use a MSI HD4830 on a UP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 box with
>>>
>>> Driver "radeon"
>>>
>>> from ports/xorg-7.4. Without EXA and DRI the graphics card works well,
>>> but when enabling EXA and/or DRI, system goes mustang. Ctrl-Alt-FX
>>> doesn't bring back a console, the tty is 'blinking' as it looks like the
>>> X server tries to start and fails.
>>>
>>> On another box, running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64, but SMP and MSI
>>> HD4670, with EXA and DRI enabled the whole box crashes immediately when
>>> loading Xserver. Without EXA and DRI, leaving a windowmaker session and
>>> therefore ending the Xserver kills the box, the OS dies and coredumps or
>>> hangs forever with a tiled screen showing 3 rows of 6 columns of the
>>> console screen on a 20,1 inch TFT.
>>>
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