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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:43:01 -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:  <1260636181.2281.35.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.

Actually, I think I see what is going on in your case.  Your framebuffer
is at 0xe0000000 and the ring is being allocated inside the framebuffer
address space.  I'm trying to figure out how this is occurring now.

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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