ATI Radeon 9000 and GDM2 Graphical Greeter Core Dumps

[Linh Pham]

[I'm not on the -questions mailing list, so please include me in any
replies. Thanks]

I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a dual Xeon 2.4GHz system (SMP
enabled in the kernel) with an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9000 video card
and have XFree86 4.3.0 + GDM2 compiled and installed.

Everything seems to run fine under X or when using GDM2 in standard
greeter mode, but when I go into the GDM2 configuration tool and switch
the greeter to Graphical, the system will core dump and relaunch GDM
5 times before it gives up. I'm using the stock gdm.conf that was
installed with the port (compiled not installed from package, the port
version I have is gdm2-2.4.1.6). At the end of this message is what is
logged in /var/log/messages when I attempt to use GDM2 in Graphical
Greeter mode.

I have tried to comment out 'Load "dri"' from XF86Config and commented
out 'driver radeondrm' from the kernel configuration and re-compiled it
without any luck. XF86Config seems to detect the video card without any
problems (as I can use XFree86 without any problems... but not GDM2 in
Graphical Greeter mode).

Has anyone else ran into this issue and/or know or have a fix for this?

Thanks!

== Begin /var/log/messages Snippet ==
Sep 10 08:45:52 courage kernel: drm0: <ATI Radeon If R250 9000> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xe8100000-0xe810ffff,0xf4000000-0xf7ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
Sep 10 08:45:52 courage kernel: info: [drm] AGP at 0xec000000 64MB
Sep 10 08:45:52 courage kernel: info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0
Sep 10 08:45:52 courage kernel: info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Sep 10 08:45:54 courage kernel: pid 517 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:45:58 courage kernel: info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Sep 10 08:46:00 courage kernel: pid 527 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:46:07 courage kernel: info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Sep 10 08:46:09 courage kernel: pid 537 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:46:14 courage kernel: info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Sep 10 08:46:16 courage kernel: pid 547 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:46:23 courage kernel: info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Sep 10 08:46:25 courage kernel: pid 557 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:46:25 courage gdm[451]: Failed to start the display server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0
Sep 10 08:46:31 courage login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
Sep 10 08:47:37 courage gdm[575]: gdm already running. Aborting!
Sep 10 08:47:50 courage kernel: pid 589 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:47:59 courage kernel: pid 599 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:48:06 courage kernel: pid 609 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:48:15 courage kernel: pid 619 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:48:22 courage kernel: pid 629 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:48:23 courage gdm[579]: Failed to start the display server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0
Sep 10 08:49:09 courage kernel: drm0: detached
Sep 10 08:49:16 courage kernel: pid 647 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:49:23 courage kernel: pid 657 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:49:32 courage kernel: pid 668 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Sep 10 08:49:39 courage kernel: pid 679 (gdmgreeter), uid 92: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
== End /var/log/messages Snippet ==

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