Re: 6.0-current panic: loading radeon module

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 15:52 +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:40:22PM -0500, Jonathan Noack wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> I was under the impresion that newer DRM stuff had been stuffed in
> back in april directly from the r300 project.

No, the DRM drivers come from DRM CVS as always.  There had been some
r300 stuff done in DRM CVS, but not enough, and r300 has their own fork
of the DRM.

> drm0: <ATI Radeon AP 9600> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xe1000000-0xe100ffff irq 7 at device 0.0 on pci2
> info: [drm] AGP at 0xb0000000 256MB
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.16.0 20050311 on minor 0
> drm0: <ATI Radeon AP 9600> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xe1000000-0xe100ffff irq 7 at device 0.0 on pci2
> info: [drm] AGP at 0xb0000000 256MB
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.16.0 20050311 on minor 0
> 
> I'm also using xorg snap 6.8.99.5 which should have the newer
> development (r300+ I thought) DRI drivers in it.

No, xorg-server-snap is just the snapshot of X.Org that X.Org
distributes, not r300.sf.net's driver (built from Mesa).

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