PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE

[Greg Rowe]

The system is still running the pagezero patch if that makes any difference?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Noland [mailto:rnoland at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:43 AM
> To: greg at rowes.org
> Cc: 'Steve Polyack'; 'Andriy Gapon'; freebsd-x11 at FreeBSD.org; 'John
> Baldwin'
> Subject: RE: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE
> 
> On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:28 -0500, Greg Rowe wrote:
> > My system has a Gigabyte Radeon HD4850 1GB PCI Express Card in it. The
> main
> > board is an ASUS P5N7A-VM, 4GB ram (tested with 2GB also), Intel Core 2
> Duo
> > E6850, on-board video disabled in the BIOS, and the BIOS is flashed to
> > ASUS's latest release. I'm using a single monitor off the DVI port.
> >
> >  I'm running the ATI Radeon driver as it works well with the exception
> of
> > DRI. I've tried the released and development version of the RadeonHD
> driver
> > but both pretty much lock up X. Whether it helps or not, the background
> > garbage on the screen I see with the ATI driver is more visible with the
> hd
> > drivers and it's the ASUS Bios splash screen in tiny font many times
> across
> > the screen.  Dmesg and Memcontrol.list from Xorg with DRI enabled is
> > attached.
> 
> Actually, I think I see what is going on in your case.  Your framebuffer
> is at 0xe0000000 and the ring is being allocated inside the framebuffer
> address space.  I'm trying to figure out how this is occurring now.
> 
> robert.
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Polyack [mailto:korvus at comcast.net]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:11 PM
> > > To: Andriy Gapon
> > > Cc: Greg Rowe; rnoland at freebsd.org; freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org; John
> Baldwin
> > > Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE
> > >
> > > Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > > > on 11/12/2009 23:14 Greg Rowe said the following:
> > > >
> > > >> Robert,
> > > >>  I tried the pagezero patch (applied, rebuilt kernel, rebooted,
> Xorg
> > > with DRI
> > > >> enabled) on my system with the Radeon HD4850 and it didn't change
> > > anything.
> > > >> See the attached. Thanks.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Greg, Steve, could you please describe your systems some more?
> > > > Type of CPU, if this is SMP.
> > > > Providing a link to your dmesg should be helpful.
> > > > 'memcontrol list' output could be useful too.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I have yet to try the patch, but my system is a a ~3Ghz Pentium 4 with
> > > Hyperthreading enabled.  Intel chipset (not sure which, but the
> USB/SATA
> > > are the ICH7) with onboard graphics.  The Radeon 9250 is a PCI add-on.
> > > I'm also using both outputs on the card (1 VGA, 1 DVI).  I've attached
> > > the output of 'dmesg' and 'pciconf -l -v'.
> >
> --
> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
> FreeBSD
>