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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:03:13 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "dt71@gmx.com" <dt71@gmx.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1srKzZcrA3OrYOkG5KePALmGbBLhwRNme_TbriC2y1kmg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>wrote:

>
> On Nov 10, 2013, at 12:20 PM, dt71@gmx.com wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Eischen wrote, On 11/10/2013 17:40:
> >> My -current is still from ~July 3, and I also got panics
> >> when trying new Xorg.  Take the drm devices out of your
> >> kernel configuration and let X load the necessary drm2
> >> devices when it starts.  This allowed it to work for me.
> >
> > Hmm, works for me to avoid panics and hard reboots. Problems:
> > 1. Switching to the virtual terminals or shutting down X causes the
> display to go black and unrevivable -- a (soft) reboot is necessary.
> > 2. A 3D application crashes with SIGBUS, and the stack gets toasted.
>
> Yes, I can get it to crash also when using a Java-based GUI, but it works
> for all the basic X apps that I need.  I also have the virtual terminal
> switching problem also, but I think that is being addressed with newsyscons.
>
> It really does suck not having a functional X.
>
>
For the record, newcons (not newsyscons) is available for testing. I'll
admit that I have not tried it, but there have been quite a few positive
reports on it. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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