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

[Robert Noland]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:05 +0100, Martin Kristensen wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:33:46 +0200
> Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> 
> > on 10/02/2010 20:29 Vitaly Magerya said the following:
> > > Robert Noland wrote:
> > >>> It is not, and yes I use WITHOUT_HAL. Currently disabling DRI
> > >>> helps; should I try rebuilding xorg-server with HAL?
> > >> Yes, you can still disable hal at runtime by setting AutoAddDevices
> > >> "Off" in xorg.conf.
> > > 
> > > Seems to work with HAL.
> > 
> > I've long thought that xorg server should be linked with libthr
> > regardless of HAL option.  Unfortunately, I never came up with patch,
> > nor have anyone else. Xorg server really uses pthreads when doing DRM
> > and HAL brings in libthr dependency only as an accident.
> > 
> 
> This is my first post to this list, so hello all.
> 
> I have been running with NoAccel for a long time, since disabling DRI
> alone would cause a complete deadlock (screen to standby, no ssh, no
> response to keyboard, etc.).
> 
> However, I rebuilt xorg-server with HAL support, and now simply
> disabling DRI allows me to start X.
> 
> The card is RV790 based.

Is that an HD5xxx?

robert.


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