Xorg crashes and reboots my computer

[Robert Noland]

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:43 -0500, François Leclerc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw that someone already posted something similar. I have the same
> problem.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-December/009124.html
> 
> My system is: Intel Q6600 on a ASUS Maximus X38 board with a Radeon HD 3870.
> 
> I have FreeBSD - 8.0 - STABLE - AMD64 installed.
> 
> It doesn't matter which driver I use (radeon or radeonhd), my machine
> freezes or reboots when switching to graphical mode. Note that my xorg.conf
> file is ok as per "Xorg -config xorg.conf -retro": I get the grey screen and
> my mouse cursor is working correctly. Things get bad when I "xinit" or
> "startx". If I disable "dri" and "dri2" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf things work
> flawlessly.
> 
> I read the list and someone else mentionned a new version of Xorg (7.6.1 I
> think) is due soon. Will it fix issues like the one we are having? When will
> it be released?

The "7.6.1" that is referred to is Mesa, not Xorg.  (libGL and dri,
among other bits)  That is needed for 3d.  I'll need a bit more info
before I can try to diagnose the issue though.  Let's start with a
"pciconf -lvb".  I may already have a patch to fix this, but the
reported issue is generally screen corruption, not panics.

robert.

> Like the other poster, I can work with VESA in the meantime, but I would
> prefer this issue fixed!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> François
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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