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

[Martin Kristensen]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:57:42 -0600
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

No, HD4890.

-- 
Martin Kristensen