Re: Radeon 7500 w/ DRI locking on restart of X

From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj_at_charter.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:37:03 -0500
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:27:11PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:05, Vulpes Velox wrote:
>
> > I had similar problem with a 7200 and OGL. I solved the problem by
> > turning off some of the options in the X config.
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:21:56 -0500 (GMT) Sean Welch
> > <welchsm_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Is anyone else seeing this issue?  I'm running into it on desktop
> > > boxes and a laptop running 4.8-RELEASE with up to date ports
> > > collections and various versions of DRI installed over a ports
> > > version of X.  I'm also seeing this under 5.1-RELEASE on the
> > > laptop.
> > >
> > > Everything works perfectly unless/until I restart the X server.
> > > This appears to be initiated automatically when running GDM -- ie,
> > > GDM starts, you log in using that X session, you log out and the
> > > session stops, GDM starts X again and displays the login screen.
>
> Everyone that's experiencing this and is using the DRI, what version
> of the radeon DRM is loaded? (dmesg | grep drm) Is anyone experiencing
> this without the DRI loaded?  The ForcePCIMode workaround is
> interesting, I'll take a look at what could be going on there.

I did some googling tonight and found out this problem is supposedly
fixed in XFree86-4.3.99 although I do not see any specific mention of
this problem in the Changelog.  See:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2504&highlight=

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj_at_charter.net
Received on Tue Aug 26 2003 - 18:37:18 UTC

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