problem with radeon X1400 under freebsd 8-current

jackal me at jackal.in
Mon Dec 15 23:57:45 PST 2008


Hello,

Sorry for a delay, but I couldn't catch the working state.
I sent traces to your email directly. Thank you for helping.


On Friday 12 December 2008 17:01:40 you wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 13:54 +0300, jackal wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with Radeon X1400 (dell 6400) under freebsd 8-current:
> >
> > startx results in a garbled screen when using the 'radeon' driver.
> > So I had to disable acceleration. About an hour later, when I turning on
> > acceleration - it works perfect. Then I can restart X many times - it
> > works. But after rebooting the problem repeats.
> >
> > I compared some 'good' and 'bad' logs, the difference follows.
> > I can see, that everything works when these variables are zero:
> > Ring contents 0x00000000
> > Ring read ptr contents 0x00000000
> > Vertex/indirect buffers contents 0x00000000
> >
> > But I have no idea, how to reset these manually, and why it resets itself
> > in a hour.
>
> Can you send me a drm debug?  After boot, kldload radeon, sysctl
> hw.dri.0.debug=1, startx.  another trace when it works might be useful
> as well.
>
> robert.
>

-- 
Kind regards, Eugeny.


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