Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:16:21 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Leclerc <fleclerc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg crashes and reboots my computer Message-ID: <1262204181.2314.189.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <363673bf0912301143x72aa6177g898648a7de5384e@mail.gmail.com> References: <363673bf0912301143x72aa6177g898648a7de5384e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:43 -0500, François Leclerc wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that someone already posted something similar. I have the same > problem. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-December/009124.html > > My system is: Intel Q6600 on a ASUS Maximus X38 board with a Radeon HD 3870. > > I have FreeBSD - 8.0 - STABLE - AMD64 installed. > > It doesn't matter which driver I use (radeon or radeonhd), my machine > freezes or reboots when switching to graphical mode. Note that my xorg.conf > file is ok as per "Xorg -config xorg.conf -retro": I get the grey screen and > my mouse cursor is working correctly. Things get bad when I "xinit" or > "startx". If I disable "dri" and "dri2" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf things work > flawlessly. > > I read the list and someone else mentionned a new version of Xorg (7.6.1 I > think) is due soon. Will it fix issues like the one we are having? When will > it be released? The "7.6.1" that is referred to is Mesa, not Xorg. (libGL and dri, among other bits) That is needed for 3d. I'll need a bit more info before I can try to diagnose the issue though. Let's start with a "pciconf -lvb". I may already have a patch to fix this, but the reported issue is generally screen corruption, not panics. robert. > Like the other poster, I can work with VESA in the meantime, but I would > prefer this issue fixed! > > Cheers! > > François > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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