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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:52:40 +1100
From:      Alex <alex@mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Radeon DRIVER
Message-ID:  <49B7A608.1070802@mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
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Some info on my card, dont know if the warnings are to be worried about. 
This is what I have for my current radeonhd driver, from xorg.log

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) RADEONHD(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(**) RADEONHD(0): Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
(**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI" "True"
(WW) RADEONHD(0): RV610: HW 2D acceleration is not implemented yet.
(**) RADEONHD(0): Selected ShadowFB.
(II) RADEONHD(0): Unknown card detected: 0x94C3:0x1458:0x2192.
        If - and only if - your card does not work or does not work 
optimally
        please contact radeonhd@opensuse.org to help rectify this.
        Use the subject: 0x94C3:0x1458:0x2192: <name of board>
        and *please* describe the problems you are seeing
        in your message.
(--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RV610 on an unidentified card
(II) RADEONHD(0): Mapped IO @ 0xf5000000 to 0x8006c5000 (size 0x00010000)
(II) RADEONHD(0): PCIE Card Detected
(II) RADEONHD(0): Getting BIOS copy from legacy VBIOS location
(II) RADEONHD(0): ATOM BIOS Rom:
        SubsystemVendorID: 0x1458 SubsystemID: 0x2192
        IOBaseAddress: 0x7000
        Filename: BR026699.bin
        BIOS Bootup Message:
GV-RX24P256HE_F2

(II) RADEONHD(0): Analog TV Default Mode: 1
(II) RADEONHD(0): Found default TV Mode NTSC
(--) RADEONHD(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kByte
(II) RADEONHD(0): Framebuffer space used by Firmware (kb): 16
(II) RADEONHD(0): Start of VRAM area used by Firmware: 0xfffc000
(II) RADEONHD(0): AtomBIOS requests 16kB of VRAM scratch space
(II) RADEONHD(0): AtomBIOS VRAM scratch base: 0xfffc000
(II) RADEONHD(0): Default Engine Clock: 527000
(II) RADEONHD(0): Default Memory Clock: 400000
(II) RADEONHD(0): Maximum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Output: 1200000
(II) RADEONHD(0): Minimum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Output: 0
(II) RADEONHD(0): Maximum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Input: 13500
(II) RADEONHD(0): Minimum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Input: 1000
(II) RADEONHD(0): Maximum Pixel Clock: 400000
(II) RADEONHD(0): Reference Clock: 27000
(WW) RADEONHD(0): Direct rendering for R600 an up forced on - This is 
NOT officially supported at the hardware level and may cause instability 
or lockups
(II) RADEONHD(0): Found libdri 5.4.0.


I'll see whether the new driver gives me any joy.

Robert Noland wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 18:07 +1100, Alex wrote:
>   
>> Disabling DRI in xorg.conf seems to give me back a fast display again...
>>
>> I am using the radeonhd driver ver 1.2.4 (xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.4)
>>     
>
> I really kind of reccommend the git radeonhd driver if you want to
> play... This is all really new code.  I tested with the ati and radeonhd
> drivers from git.  EXA worked on both, Xv worked on the ati driver, but
> the video wasn't synced, it played too fast.  With radeonhd from git,
> everything seemed good.
>
> robert.
>
>   
>> Alex wrote:
>>     
>>> Video is suddenly very slow too If I drag windows I can see them being 
>>> redrawn.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi Robert,
>>>>
>>>> Have patched and rebuilt.
>>>>
>>>> Everything is detected ok:
>>>>
>>>> [alex@desktop ~/Desktop]$ dmesg |grep drm
>>>> drm0: <Radeon HD 2400 Pro> on vgapci0
>>>> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
>>>> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528
>>>> info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
>>>> info: [drm] Loading RV610 CP Microcode
>>>> info: [drm] Loading RV610 PFP Microcode
>>>> info: [drm] Resetting GPU
>>>> info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
>>>> drm0: [ITHREAD]
>>>> info: [drm] Resetting GPU
>>>> info: [drm] Loading RV610 CP Microcode
>>>> info: [drm] Loading RV610 PFP Microcode
>>>> info: [drm] Resetting GPU
>>>>         
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