new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 10 17:48:36 UTC 2013


On Nov 10, 2013, at 12:20 PM, dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
> 
> Daniel Eischen wrote, On 11/10/2013 17:40:
>> My -current is still from ~July 3, and I also got panics
>> when trying new Xorg.  Take the drm devices out of your
>> kernel configuration and let X load the necessary drm2
>> devices when it starts.  This allowed it to work for me.
> 
> Hmm, works for me to avoid panics and hard reboots. Problems:
> 1. Switching to the virtual terminals or shutting down X causes the display to go black and unrevivable -- a (soft) reboot is necessary.
> 2. A 3D application crashes with SIGBUS, and the stack gets toasted.

Yes, I can get it to crash also when using a Java-based GUI, but it works for all the basic X apps that I need.  I also have the virtual terminal switching problem also, but I think that is being addressed with newsyscons.

It really does suck not having a functional X.

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DE


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