Radeon 7500 w/ DRI locking on restart of X

[Sean Welch]

Eric, I updated my 5.1-RELEASE system to CURRENT dated today at
approx. 9:10 CDT to give your changes a try.  I had a bit of a fright at
first with kernel panics right at the end of the boot sequence but it turned
out I had forgotten to disable the ltmdm code -- the kernel module
compiled under -RELEASE wasn't friendly to -CURRENT.

I've got just a basic install with my custom kernel.  I'm using the packages
for X from the 5.1-RELEASE cd running twm.  Hangs on restart are gone!
I restarted about 10 times in a row and ran glxinfo and glxgears each time
to verify DRI was still activated and working -- no issues.  VT switches are
fine (even while running glxgears).  The one thing that does not work is 
resume from acpiconf -s 4 (disk) -- there is a failure to refresh in X and no
ability *apparently* to switch to a VT; the keystrokes just generate beeps.
Interestingly, the cursor still changed between the different modes when 
mousing over the xterm and onto the background.  Also, Alt-Cntl-Del did
work just fine.

The only other thing I noticed is that there seems to be a syslog entry for
every instance of running glxgears that reads:

[MP SAFE] drm0

Is this expected behavior?  I noticed that same message (in brackets) in
front of each of my disks as they were probed during boot.

Any further info you'd like or more testing I could do to help?

                                                                                                  Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Anholt <eta at lclark.edu>
Sent: Oct 23, 2003 9:09 PM
To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj at charter.net>
Cc: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists at HotPOP.com>, freebsd-stable at freebsd.org, 
	freebsd-current at freebsd.org, Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org, 
	welchsm at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Radeon 7500 w/ DRI locking on restart of X

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:37, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:27:11PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:05, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> >
> > > I had similar problem with a 7200 and OGL. I solved the problem by
> > > turning off some of the options in the X config.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:21:56 -0500 (GMT) Sean Welch
> > > <welchsm at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is anyone else seeing this issue?  I'm running into it on desktop
> > > > boxes and a laptop running 4.8-RELEASE with up to date ports
> > > > collections and various versions of DRI installed over a ports
> > > > version of X.  I'm also seeing this under 5.1-RELEASE on the
> > > > laptop.
> > > >
> > > > Everything works perfectly unless/until I restart the X server.
> > > > This appears to be initiated automatically when running GDM -- ie,
> > > > GDM starts, you log in using that X session, you log out and the
> > > > session stops, GDM starts X again and displays the login screen.
> >
> > Everyone that's experiencing this and is using the DRI, what version
> > of the radeon DRM is loaded? (dmesg | grep drm) Is anyone experiencing
> > this without the DRI loaded?  The ForcePCIMode workaround is
> > interesting, I'll take a look at what could be going on there.
> 
> I did some googling tonight and found out this problem is supposedly
> fixed in XFree86-4.3.99 although I do not see any specific mention of
> this problem in the Changelog.  See:
> 
> http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2504&highlight=

That patch has been in our XFree86 for quite a while.  For those of you
using -current, could you try with the latest DRM which I committed to
FreeBSD CVS a few minutes ago?

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt at FreeBSD.org





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