From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 04:41:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68E1065696 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:41:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF788FC1A for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o194faXN004471 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:41:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@bunrab.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id o194faRL004470 for x11@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:41:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:41:36 -0800 From: David Wolfskill Message-ID: <20100209044136.GJ391@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20100208172654.GA391@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DRI problems with ati/radeon on stable/7 r203425 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Wolfskill , x11@freebsd.org List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:41:37 -0000 --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:44AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > ... > >And the xdm login banner finally showed up; I'd estimate that was around > >20 minutes of idle time before that happened. >=20 > Does it behave differently if you disable xdm in /etc/ttys and manually= =20 > startx? OK; I tried disabling xdm & starting X via xinit, at which point I received a reminder that I had didn't have permission to move the X.org log files around in /var/log. I could pursue that further if it's really wanted, but the suggestion below appears to have had a more dramatic effect.... > Oh, and you should probably have Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in the=20 > driver section of xorg.conf. Ok; I hadn't uncommented any of the "acceleration" lines in the file -- I tend to leave things at default values unless I have a known reason to change them (or I'm too bored, which doesn't happen often). :-} Merely explicitly disabling the "NoAccel" option(!) appears to have had no particular effect -- I was able to get a locakup (or extremem slowdown) with it. Doing that in conjunction with specifying EXA as the AccelMethod does appear to avoid the problem -- I tried at least a dozen times, and there's been no failure. On the other hand, animated displays sometimes "glitch" rather more often with EXA than with teh default (XAA). Thats'a bit surprising to me, as the laptop in question isn't especially recent -- most of it dates from a few years ago. (It's a Latitude C840 chassis with a few parts from earlier Inspiron 8200s, and a few that were parts purchased for it.) Thanks. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAktw54AACgkQmprOCmdXAD1xbgCff3FE78Dca4aX73B+Ny7S3ID/ h7IAmgKiU78SMEyZeVuZP2SlS4EKXUoO =hsmF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu--