Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:47:17 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: greg@rowes.org Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, 'John Baldwin' <jhb@freebsd.org>, 'Andriy Gapon' <avg@icyb.net.ua> Subject: RE: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <1260632837.2281.33.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <E3A590744E63446287A7C170D93388FD@GregPC> References: <200912111614.47417.greg@rowes.org> <4B22C93D.9000208@icyb.net.ua> <4B2317CF.5080900@comcast.net> <E3A590744E63446287A7C170D93388FD@GregPC>
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On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:28 -0500, Greg Rowe wrote: > My system has a Gigabyte Radeon HD4850 1GB PCI Express Card in it. The main > board is an ASUS P5N7A-VM, 4GB ram (tested with 2GB also), Intel Core 2 Duo > E6850, on-board video disabled in the BIOS, and the BIOS is flashed to > ASUS's latest release. I'm using a single monitor off the DVI port. > > I'm running the ATI Radeon driver as it works well with the exception of > DRI. I've tried the released and development version of the RadeonHD driver > but both pretty much lock up X. Whether it helps or not, the background > garbage on the screen I see with the ATI driver is more visible with the hd > drivers and it's the ASUS Bios splash screen in tiny font many times across > the screen. Dmesg and Memcontrol.list from Xorg with DRI enabled is > attached. Please send "pciconf -lvb". In your case, it looks like the framebuffer may be cached which would likely be the reason that you are seeing bits of the bios screen showing up. robert. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Polyack [mailto:korvus@comcast.net] > > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:11 PM > > To: Andriy Gapon > > Cc: Greg Rowe; rnoland@freebsd.org; freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; John Baldwin > > Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE > > > > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > on 11/12/2009 23:14 Greg Rowe said the following: > > > > > >> Robert, > > >> I tried the pagezero patch (applied, rebuilt kernel, rebooted, Xorg > > with DRI > > >> enabled) on my system with the Radeon HD4850 and it didn't change > > anything. > > >> See the attached. Thanks. > > >> > > > > > > Greg, Steve, could you please describe your systems some more? > > > Type of CPU, if this is SMP. > > > Providing a link to your dmesg should be helpful. > > > 'memcontrol list' output could be useful too. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > I have yet to try the patch, but my system is a a ~3Ghz Pentium 4 with > > Hyperthreading enabled. Intel chipset (not sure which, but the USB/SATA > > are the ICH7) with onboard graphics. The Radeon 9250 is a PCI add-on. > > I'm also using both outputs on the card (1 VGA, 1 DVI). I've attached > > the output of 'dmesg' and 'pciconf -l -v'. > -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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