PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

[Wilde, Donald]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Nikolas Britton
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:46 PM
To: Alastair G. Hogge
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

On 3/27/06, Alastair G. Hogge <agh at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> G'day
>
> Having some problem with Xorg-6.9.0 and the radeon or ati driver on 
> mad64 system. X seems to look up at a black screen after setting the 
> resolution and then resets the computer. I have drm and radeon defined

> in my kernel config and I've also added the appropriate lines to 
> xorg.conf
>

This may or may not be relavent... but I have a triple-head setup using
three Radeon cards; 1 agp based 8500LE and 2 pci based 7000/VE's.

I've never had DRI / X working... The problem(s) you're having sounds
like the problems I was having... Comment out 'Load  "dri"' in xorg.conf
and try it again.

Nikolas, Alistair -

There is still active work going on in the DRI/DRM section of X.org for
ATI/Radeon. There were some partial fixes posted to FreeDesktop.org's
bugzilla, but they require X 6.9.0-CURRENT. Nikolas' suggestion
(commenting Load "DRI") does work, but I was able to get the DRI to
function (with 3D OpenGL) using CURRENT X (as of two months ago; it may
be even better now.)
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