Problem with Beryl and xorg 7.2 - RELENG_6

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Fri Jun 8 11:20:43 UTC 2007


On Friday 08 June 2007 07:16:40 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007 06:55:23 Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:16:12PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > You should be able to get beryl to run with the --use-copy option, but
> > > it will be very slow.
> > >
> > > Currently, the texture_from_pixmap render path (the default for beryl),
> > > won't work with the radeon driver as AIGLX is broken on those drivers.
> > > Getting it working on intel (also with AIGLX) seems to be hit-or-miss
> > > as well.
> >
> > Ah, thanks - exactly the kind of information I was hoping for.  Any word
> > on when the radeon drivers will be fixed?  How will I be able to find
> > out when this has been done; gotta get me some beryl fix.
> >
> > J
>
> Just for clarification, AIGLX is broken on the radeon drivers on freebsd. 
> It does work fine on linux at the moment.  Last time I asked around on this
> list about the status of AIGLX, I had the very distinct sense that there is
> no one actively working on this problem.
>
> Just so you know, I took another look at your Xorg log file this morning
> and see that you have another problem as well:
>
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmSetBusid failed (8, pci:0000:01:00.0), Permission
> denied
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
>
> This error shows up in Google a bit, but I'm not seeing one simple
> solution. Do you have a DRI section in your xorg.conf file?  In mine, I
> have:
>
> Section "DRI"
>         Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> That will give everyone access to direct rendering.
>
> Did you build the DRM modules from outside of the FreeBSD source tree (ie.
> from the DRM git tree)?  Some people mention getting the Permission denied
> error (on linux) when the DRM modules were compiled with a different
> version of gcc than the kernel).
>
> Adam

I forgot to mention, there is a pr open for the AIGLX bug:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112984&cat=



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