Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:24:04 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Martin <nakal@web.de> Subject: Re: Xorg/X11 driver Radeon: radeon vs. radeonhd, a mess! Message-ID: <49E5EE04.1050208@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20090415160311.2e898844@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <49E4B516.2080901@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090414231839.46d634f2@zelda.local> <49E584F0.5030702@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090415113828.46075cdc@ernst.jennejohn.org> <49E5B1FF.8090606@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090415160311.2e898844@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:07:59 +0000 > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> Gary Jennejohn wrote: >>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:55:44 +0000 >>> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >>> >>>> Martin wrote: >>>>> Am Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:08:54 +0200 >>>>> schrieb "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>: >>>>> >>>>>> [...] >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> if you have problems with the radeonhd driver, you should tell the guys >>>>> who work at it. They are really nice and try to help everywhere. >>>>> >>>>> Subscribe there: >>>>> http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/ >>>>> >>>>> I am only using radeonhd, because it works for me on all cards I have. >>>>> >>>>> I noticed that window movement may get choppy, when you compile a new >>>>> kernel (DRM) and don't recompile a fresh radeonhd driver. This happens >>>>> especially when DRI is enabled for your xorg server. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Martin >>>> As far as I know, radeonhd from ports doesn't work with DRI enabled on >>>> FreeBSD - so it doesn't work on my box either. I guess you're following >>>> the recommendations using the development brnach directly from GIT. >>>> >>> Works for me on amd64 8-current. >>> >>> garyj:ernst:~:-bash:4> grep DRI /var/log/Xorg.0.log >>> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI >>> (II) Loading extension DRI2 >>> (**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI" >>> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Back Buffer at offset 0x024B4000 (size = 0x00B13000) >>> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Depth Buffer at offset 0x02FC7000 (size = 0x00B13000) >>> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Textures at offset 0x03ADA000 (size = 0x0C400000) >>> (II) RADEONHD(0): [DRI] installation complete >>> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 >>> garyj:ernst:~:-bash:5> ls -d /var/db/pkg/*radeon* >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 14 11:32 /var/db/pkg/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel-1.2.5.20090412 >>> >>> >> Tried radeonhd-devel and failed also! >> >> When enabling DRI in config file, I see the XDM login box and the box >> crashes and freezes immediately. Without DRI radeonhd-devel is horrible >> slow when moving windows around - inacceptable. It doesn't matter >> whether EXA is enabled or not and the phenomenon ist the same as with >> the regular radeonhd-driver from xorg-drivers. >> >> I'm back with the VESA driver. > > Hmm. Are the drm and radeondrm in your kernel up-to-date? Your posting > was chopped by the first replier and I can't remember. > > Can't think of anything else. > > I personally don't use xdm/gdm/kdm. I just use startx. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn The kernel modules 'radeon' and 'drm' are loaded via /boot/loader.conf when booting and they are up to date (I do a buildworld on a regular basis these days and it takes ~30 minutes for a quad core box). Even when not starting X via xdm, the box crashes immediately, freezes and is only 'revivable' by cold resetting. This happens with driver radeonhd and enabled DRI. Without DRI the radeonhd driver works, but moving a window looks like on Windooze when using standard VGA driver without acceleration (this is bot with EXA on or off) - scrolling and moving objects is really choppy. 'radeon' doesn't even show up anything, freezes the box as well as 'radeonhd', but no matter whether DRI enabled or not. At home I will test radeonhd-devel with the RV770LE chipset (here I have only RV730). The RV770LE seems not to be recognized by 'radeonhd', but works fine with 'radeon'. But in both cases, DRI enabled crashes the box.
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