radeon locks up my system, use radeonhd On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: >> I have an HD4850 and it works well. Unfortunately it is the one from >> ASUS where only one port does dual-link. >> >> -Kip >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus_at_eternamente.info> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, March 9, 2009 13:53, Robert Noland wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: >>>> >>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> > > This should work on pretty much all Radeon r600+ cards (and the >>>>>> >>>>> older >>>>> >>>>>> > > stuff as well). With the appropriate X drivers, you should get >>>>>> >>>>> EXA >>>>> >>>>>> > > accelleration and Xv. 3d is not available yet, afaik. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> This is kernel code and has nothing directly to do with ports. >>>>>> >>>>> Let me be more specific. >>>>> Assuming I'm using a 3850, which I believe is the RV670 >>>>> chipset, is there anything I will need to change in xorg.conf (or >>>>> elsewhere) to take advantage of/not break the new code? >>>>> >>>> rv670 is what I'm testing on... I tried to put a few details in the >>>> commit message. >>>> >>>> Basically, for R600+ you have to force DRI on for the moment. You >>>> should also be using exa. >>>> >>>> So, right now, I'm using radeonhd from git master, with : >>>> >>>> Driver "radeonhd" >>>> VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" >>>> BoardName "RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850]" >>>> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" >>>> Option "DRI" >>>> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" >>>> Option "Audio" >>>> EndSection >>>> >>>> robert. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Robert Huff >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org> >>>> FreeBSD >>>> >>> I'm planning to move from nVidia to ATi, and all this work is what makes >>> me do that. This code you're talking about, would benefit a HD4850 ? >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> matheus >>> >>> -- >>> We will call you cygnus, >>> The God of balance you shall be >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >> > I use a MSI HD4830 on a UP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 box with > > Driver "radeon" > > from ports/xorg-7.4. Without EXA and DRI the graphics card works well, > but when enabling EXA and/or DRI, system goes mustang. Ctrl-Alt-FX > doesn't bring back a console, the tty is 'blinking' as it looks like the > X server tries to start and fails. > > On another box, running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64, but SMP and MSI > HD4670, with EXA and DRI enabled the whole box crashes immediately when > loading Xserver. Without EXA and DRI, leaving a windowmaker session and > therefore ending the Xserver kills the box, the OS dies and coredumps or > hangs forever with a tiled screen showing 3 rows of 6 columns of the > console screen on a 20,1 inch TFT. >Received on Thu Mar 12 2009 - 20:01:00 UTC
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