[HEADS UP] drm merged to -STABLE

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 19 21:28:59 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 22:32 -0500, Greg Rivers wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:01 -0500, Greg Rivers wrote:
> >> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ok, so it isn't the gart caching... Can you get me a pointer to a
> >>> screenshot?
> >>>
> >>
> >> fetch http://www.tharned.org/rv380-drm-issue.tbz
> >> This archive contains various logs and system configuration files as well
> >> as screen shot images.  Look at the README file for a description of the
> >> images.
> >>
> >>
> >>> What is garbled exactly?  Is the damage constrained to specific windows
> >>> or it it the entire framebuffer?
> >>>
> >>
> >> The entire frame buffer is garbled; switching to syscons and back seems to
> >> change the way it's garbled.  However, the interior of an xterm window is
> >> never garbled.  I'm running a dual-head configuration with the frame
> >> buffer spanning both monitors.
> >
> > Ok, I thought that I had already fixed this up, but I missed this
> > spot...  Please try this patch.
> >
> 
> It's still garbled with this patch too.  Any other ideas?  Just let me 
> know when it's time for me to buy a different video card.  :-)

So, what I noticed today is that the difference between your ok and
garbled xorg.logs seems to be the ring pointer contents not being
empty...  I haven't really figured out why that is yet...

robert.

> -- 
> Greg Rivers
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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