On 6/17/2005 12:18 PM, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Steve Roome wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:03:32PM +0100: >>If it's any iterest, I had a similar experience earlier this week. >> >>xorg-server-6.8.99.5 with a radeon 9600 X and -current as of Monday >>causes my entire machine to freeze up completely rather than just >>panic. >> >>It's fine if I take drm option out of the x config again - so it's >>only when I actually use DRM, and for me it's a black screen and hard >>lockup. > > This is odd. DRI (and hence DRM) only support radeons up to 9200 > (really 9250 probably). Your 9600 series shouldn't have a need for > the drm module in first place. The r300 project (http://r300.sourceforge.net) is getting tantalizingly close to usable DRI for newer radeons. I saw glxgears running at 2600+ fps for about 15 seconds before the 3D engine on my 9800 Pro locked up. I finally got tired of manually merging Mesa commits and translating linux drm changes to bsd so I'm no longer using it. If you're interested, here's the basic instructions: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2005-May/001903.html Note that it requires a decent amount of effort just to get it to compile, much less do anything useful. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here... -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr_at_alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195
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