FreeBSD/i386 lockups with Xorg & Radeon cards

[jason henson]

Simon Maginnity wrote:

>I am having the same problem with a Abit Radeon RX700(uses ATI chipset),
>have tried to configure xorg using the xorgcfg -textmode command and editing
>the xorg.conf file afterwards to check it over etc. when I do 'man radeon'
>my card is unlisted and x either locks up completely or tells me I do not
>have a monitor specified.
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>Is there any newer Radeon drivers available? Whats the easiest console
>command to get them?
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>Xorg.conf automatically loads the dri module in FreeBSD 5.4 too, so it's not
>that.
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>I have looked at the logs for xorg in /var/logs/Xorg.0.log and did not find
>anything that particularly stuck out as obviously wrong, although there
>could have been, there was lots of stuff in there.
>
>Thanks for your help
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>On 12/5/05 2:51 PM, "jason henson" <jason at ec.rr.com> wrote:
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Search for WW or II and maybe ** in the log for problems.

You should disable dri for your card, only 2d is supported now for your 
card.  It seems you made an another error when you edited you x config 
file by hand to get the monitor error.  Post a copy of your file and 
some one(me?) can look it over.

Here is the official up to date status for radeon cards on x
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareVendor

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>>>>Do you have an nforce chipset on the motherboard?  I do and I have never
>>>>had any version of x to work with dri on a radeon.  So disable dri if it
>>>>is on and try again.
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>>>No. Both motherboards are VIA chipsets, one is an ASUS and one is an ASRock.
>>>(although I've been told that ASRock is a low-budget division of ASUS, dunno
>>>whether that's true or not.)
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>>>>Also are you getting any error messages?  You can check /var/run for the
>>>>x logs from the last running of x.
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>>>Nope. Just locks the machine.
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>>>>Does x lock after the startx command, or randomly later on while you are
>>>>using x?
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>>>It locks as soon as the X server starts. I can start it with X -configure,
>>>xorgcfg, or just plain `X', it doesn't matter - as soon as it starts trying
>>>to initialize the display, it locks up.
>>>
>>>-Sean
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>>Sounds like a driver problem.  Are you loading dri.  Post a copy of
>>xorg.conf.
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>Simon Maginnity
>ICT Technician
>Catholic College Wodonga
>PO Box 591, Bowman Crt, Wodonga,
>Victoria, Australia, 3689.
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>email: smg at ccw.vic.edu.au
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