freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so

[Andriy Gapon]

on 10/02/2010 12:29 Vitaly Magerya said the following:
> Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to
>> deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue,
>> as others wrote them at freebsd-x11:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009370.html
> 
> I have a similar problem with ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (r250) and
> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 (dmesg is at [1]). The system hangs when I
> run Xorg with xorg.conf obtained by `Xorg -configure' and do either of
> these:
> 
> * pkill Xorg
> * close xorg via ^C and start it again
> * close xorg via ^C and kldunload radeon
> 
> I did not try using 'option "DRI" "OFF"' though, I will this evening.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't currently say if it works under different
> conditions, since after a number of hangs I switched to VESA. But if
> anyone is interested, I'll investigate further and will provide any
> additional information -- just name it.

Please check if your X binary is linked with libthr (using ldd).
I saw similar problems when it was not.
That was because it was compiled without HAL support.

-- 
Andriy Gapon