6.0-current panic: loading radeon module
Jonathan Noack
noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Fri Jun 17 17:40:33 GMT 2005
On 6/17/2005 12:18 PM, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Steve Roome wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:03:32PM +0100:
>>If it's any iterest, I had a similar experience earlier this week.
>>
>>xorg-server-6.8.99.5 with a radeon 9600 X and -current as of Monday
>>causes my entire machine to freeze up completely rather than just
>>panic.
>>
>>It's fine if I take drm option out of the x config again - so it's
>>only when I actually use DRM, and for me it's a black screen and hard
>>lockup.
>
> This is odd. DRI (and hence DRM) only support radeons up to 9200
> (really 9250 probably). Your 9600 series shouldn't have a need for
> the drm module in first place.
The r300 project (http://r300.sourceforge.net) is getting tantalizingly
close to usable DRI for newer radeons. I saw glxgears running at 2600+
fps for about 15 seconds before the 3D engine on my 9800 Pro locked up.
I finally got tired of manually merging Mesa commits and translating
linux drm changes to bsd so I'm no longer using it. If you're
interested, here's the basic instructions:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2005-May/001903.html
Note that it requires a decent amount of effort just to get it to
compile, much less do anything useful. Abandon hope, all ye who enter
here...
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