DRM for Radeon 7000

Walter C. Pelissero walter at pelissero.de
Tue Jun 7 21:37:19 GMT 2005


Roland Smith writes:
 > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:54:41AM +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
 > > Has anybody succeeded to run an ATI Radeon 7000 AGP on FreeBSD 5.4
 > > with DRI/DRM?
 > 
 > I've got a Radeon 9200 AGP (which is supposed to be a cheaper version of
 > the 7000?)

Quite the opposite.  You can't get cheaper than the 7000.

 > running on a uniprocessor amd64. On my system, drm0 shares an
 > interrupt with the ethernet card without problems.
 > 
 > Does it work if you boot a non-SMP kernel? If so it could be that the
 > DRI code is not completely SMP safe.

I think you must be right.  I rebooted with kern.smp.disabled="1" in
device.hints and DRI/DRM all of a sudden works flawlessly.

I suppose I should be filing a PR about it soon.

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walter pelissero
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