freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so

[Robert Noland]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 23:43 +0100, Martin Kristensen wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:01:58 -0600
> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:05 +0100, Martin Kristensen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:33:46 +0200
> > > Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > on 10/02/2010 20:29 Vitaly Magerya said the following:
> > > > > Robert Noland wrote:
> > > > >>> It is not, and yes I use WITHOUT_HAL. Currently disabling DRI
> > > > >>> helps; should I try rebuilding xorg-server with HAL?
> > > > >> Yes, you can still disable hal at runtime by setting
> > > > >> AutoAddDevices "Off" in xorg.conf.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Seems to work with HAL.
> > > > 
> > > > I've long thought that xorg server should be linked with libthr
> > > > regardless of HAL option.  Unfortunately, I never came up with
> > > > patch, nor have anyone else. Xorg server really uses pthreads
> > > > when doing DRM and HAL brings in libthr dependency only as an
> > > > accident.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This is my first post to this list, so hello all.
> > > 
> > > I have been running with NoAccel for a long time, since disabling
> > > DRI alone would cause a complete deadlock (screen to standby, no
> > > ssh, no response to keyboard, etc.).
> > > 
> > > However, I rebuilt xorg-server with HAL support, and now simply
> > > disabling DRI allows me to start X.
> > > 
> > > The card is RV790 based.
> > 
> > Just checked... This card should work with Accel and DRI... At least
> > on -CURRENT with updated ports.  Check UPDATING, and set
> > WITHOUT_NOUVEAU to get correct version of libdrm.
> > 
> > robert.
> > 
> 
> I am on -STABLE built on Jan. 19. I updated mesa today (to
> libdrm-2.4.17), and rebuilt xorg-server and drivers. I have
> WITHOUT_NOUVEAU="YES" in /etc/make.conf. pkg_info reports libGL-7.6.1.

Is that 8-STABLE or 7?  8 should work, and I think 7 should as well, but
just checking.  6 won't work.

> I have tried loading radeon.ko manually before startx.

What are the results?  If things are not working, I'll want to see your
xorg.conf, xorg.log, pciconf -lvb and a sysctl hw.dri with X started if
you can get it.

robert.

> If it will help, I can switch to -CURRENT to see if that changes
> anything.
> 
> Martin
> 
> PS. Robert, in researching this I got some idea of the effort you put
> into this, thanks!

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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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