Are you using the radeonhd from git? I needed to use that to get it to work. -Kip On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:09 AM, O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > My private box is a UP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 equipted with a MSI HD4830 > (RV770). On this machine with the most recent OS and the most recent > xorg-7.4 compiled from the ports, > > Driver 'radeonhd' > > does not work, the tty does never show up login screen. It seems the driver > does not recognise the GPU. Also on this box, enabling > > Option 'DRI' > > doesn't work. When getty tries to start xdm on the specific tty, Xserver > can't be started - there is a error message on console coming from [drm], > saying something about 'idle'. I never caught this. > > On my lab's box, a SMP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 with the most recent > xorg-7.4 as mentioned above, equippted with a MSI HD4670 (RV730), > > Driver 'radeonhd' > > works, but shows up weird behaviour sometimes (crashing), so I switchd to > > Driver 'radeon'. > > But also on this box, enabling > > Option 'DRI' > > does not let X come up. > > Either way, with radeonhd or radeon, ending a X session (I use windowmaker), > seems crashing X and then locking up/crashing the whole box. Also very > boring is the fact, that I can't swtch to the console via > > Ctrl-Alt-F{1-8} > > althought this is explicitely enabled in the config. I see 'nothing' but a > black screen, the console is definitely changing, I can change back to the X > screen, but never to a console. This behaviour is both on FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE > (most recent before I switched these days to 8.0-CURRENT on that box) and > 8.0-CURRENT! I guess this is a serious issue in Xorg 7.4 and/or the Radeon > driver. > > It is also very surprising, that on the slower UP FreeBSD box with the > faster GPU (RV770), X is much(!) faster than on the faster SMP FreeBSD box > with the slower GPU (RV730). On both systems DRI is not enabled and both > boxes do not load modules 'drm' and 'radeon'. > > Kip Macy wrote: >> >> 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. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" > > >Received on Fri Mar 13 2009 - 15:59:08 UTC
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