Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:02:09 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Gereon Kaiping <kta1c10!gereon@linta.de> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATI graphics card on FreeBSD10: Xorg -configure fails (No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol) Message-ID: <CAN6yY1t9rCxuqmeqq1DBAqVbe9Xs%2BL_ZRmSjLVh5_cEjgFJ5sw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BmEJ1t7AnHfSnHsRXd_An_0KMTePx6EdcUqP6axa3v4cYYHQQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BmEJ1t7AnHfSnHsRXd_An_0KMTePx6EdcUqP6axa3v4cYYHQQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Gereon Kaiping <kta1c10!gereon@linta.de>wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got someone's spare ATI X1950XTX graphics card for free, > and considered to have it replace my nvidia Quadro. Not knowing much > about hardware and 3D acceleration and stuff, I searched the internet > for a bit and found out that the ATI Radeon KMS drivers are supposed > to be in FreeBSD 10, and took that as good news to indeed try it out. > > Unfortunately, that was not very successful. While it did not break > everything (The system does still boot) I don't get X configured with > this new configuration, because `X -configure` fails with a segfault > (see below). > > This is still the case also after rebuilding the base system and all > my packages from source while having > WITH_NEW_XORG=yes > WITH_KMS=yes > in my /etc/make.conf. > Is there a likely way to debug this problem (Changing some other > options and rebuilding some software? configuring X by > hand/xorgcfg/xorgconfig/stuff like that?) and get this to work, or am > I better off putting my nvidia card back in and foregoing hardware 3d > acceleration? > > -- Gereon Kaiping > > ==X -configure output== > > X.Org X Server 1.12.4 > Release Date: 2012-08-27 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT amd64 > Current Operating System: FreeBSD parhippus 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD > 11.0-CURRENT #0 r261797: Wed Feb 19 01:41:55 GMT 2014 > gereon@parhippus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARHIPPUS amd64 > Build Date: 20 February 2014 01:20:20PM > > Current version of pixman: 0.32.4 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Feb 20 22:01:23 2014 > List of video drivers: > ati > radeon > intel > r128 > openchrome > mach64 > nv > vesa > (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new" > (II) [KMS] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol, no kernel modesetting. > Segmentation fault at address 0x0 > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting > > > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support > at http://wiki.x.org > for help. > Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional > information. > > Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. > Abort trap (core dumped) > For ATi KMS, you need to build WITH_GALLIUM. not WITH_KMS. WITH_KMS builds in kernel support for Intel cards. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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