problem with radeon X1400 under freebsd 8-current

Robert Noland rnoland at 2hip.net
Tue Dec 16 07:58:26 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:26 +0300, jackal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:35:20 you wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:57 +0300, jackal wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Sorry for a delay, but I couldn't catch the working state.
> > > I sent traces to your email directly. Thank you for helping.
> >
> > Thanks, I don't really see anything that looks wrong in drm.  Can you
> > describe what you mean by garbled?  
> 
> Screenshots:
> http://jackal.in/x11/garbled.html

Ok, I got one of the ATI guys to look at it.  You can try disabling
colortiling and see if that makes the difference.  I'm thinking the best
bet is to update xorg... If your up for it, I have patches to the ports
tree available at
http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/xorg-7.4-111608.patch

robert.

> 
> > Also, which versions of xserver, 
> > radeon driver, and mesa?
> 
> All latest from ports.
> dri-7.0.3_1,2       OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for the DRI
> xf86-video-ati-6.9.0 X.Org ati display driver
> xorg-server-1.4.2,1 X.Org X server and related programs
> 
> 
> >
> > robert.
> >
> > > 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.
> 
> 
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net>
2Hip Networks
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