Xorg crashes and reboots my computer

[Robert Noland]

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 15:48 -0500, François Leclerc wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>  
> I have attached to this message the result of running "pciconf -lvb".
>  
> I have a question regarding the version of Xorg that must be
> installed. Which is the best? The one installed using "portinstall -P
> xorg" or the one installed using "pkg_add -r xorg"? The question might
> look strange but the two commands install a different version. One
> suggests the radeon driver when running "Xorg -configure" and the
> other radeonhd. Note that I tried both versions of Xorg (and both with
> radeon and radeonhd) without success. But I'm guessing one is a better
> choice? Which one?

Well, If you ports tree is up to date, then the one from ports will be
the latest available.  Your card doesn't locate the framebuffer where I
thought it might and so I doubt that the patch that I was referring to
will fix the issue.  Based on the above, I can't help but wonder if
something in your ports is out of sync and may be triggering this.  That
said, the kernel still shouldn't panic.  If you can get a backtrace from
the kernel panic, that would be good.

robert.

> Thanks for your quick reply!
>  
> François.
> 
> 
> 2009/12/30 Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org>
>         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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