radeon and FreeBSD freeze

[Boris Samorodov]

Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:47 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>> Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:01:33PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>> >> Norikatsu Shigemura <nork at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> >> > On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:06:50 +0400
>> >> > Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >> > 	works.  To get that result, I made a ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-
>> >> >> > 	radeonhd-devel port.  Anyone do you need this port, too?
>> >> >> Sure. Thanks!
>> >> > 	Thank you, I brushed up my port.  Please test attached port.
>> >> 
>> >> Sorry to inform you but actually I have:
>> >> -----
>> >> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Sapphire X550 Silent] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd0000000/28, 0xfe7e0000/16, I/O @ 0xb000/8, BIOS @ 0xfe7c0000/17
>> >> (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 secondary [Sapphire X550 Silent] rev 0, Mem @ 0xfe7f0000/16
>> >> -----
>> >> ...which seems to be supported by the radeon (not radeonhd) driver.
>> >> Well, I'd say that my card rather unsupported, since I get freezing
>> >> X with it. So I have to use the vesa driver.
>> >
>> > Could you give more details on the freeze symptoms ?
>> > E.g., is it complete freeze, or is mouse pointer still alive ?
>> 
>> The most convenient way to freeze the OS is to finish gnome session.

I stand corrected. It's not a freeze but panic -- the machine reboots
itself. No core though:
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Sep 10 17:02:01 host savecore: reboot after panic: page fault
Sep 10 17:02:01 host savecore: no dump, not enough free space on device (55888 available, need 359726)
Sep 10 17:02:01 host savecore: unsaved dumps found but not saved
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Don't understand why it's not enough memory:
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host% swapinfo -h 
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ad8s1b       4194304       0B     4.0G     0%
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>> When gdm is reloading the whole mashine freezes at gnome greeter.
>> The mouse cursor freezes while being a clock-buzzer. Ctrl-alt-del
>> doesn't help, only reset does.
>> 
>> > Does disabling DRI in xorg.conf fixes the problem ?
>> 
>> Didn't try, but may do if it may help.
>> 
>> Here is my X-log:
>> ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/tmp/Xorg.0.log
>
> Something is very odd here... drm is not being enabled, so it is not at
> fault.  Are all of your ports up to date and built without the nvidia
> option?

I used to build ports at tinderbox and then unstall packages.
I can't find any changes for xorg ports options -- seems that
tinderbox uses the defaults.

I'm not sure if all (needed?) ports are up-to-date.

> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
> ...
> (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not
> found)

May be because the glx extension is loading by default?:
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(II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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