X troubles (possibly radeon related)

[Fred Cox]

Several people have reported problems with X.org 6.9
and Radeon X300, which were "solved" by going back to
6.8.2.  This includes total machine lockup with the
default vga driver as well as various ati and radeon
drivers.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any visible
action on the problem.  I get no response when I email
the Xorg maintainer.

I don't think they want to believe they've broken
something.  They want to blame the drivers.

Fred

--- Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-xll at sentinelchicken.net>
wrote:

> Greetings.
> 
> I have been struggling off-and-on with my laptop for
> a few weeks now, 
> trying to get x11 to function correctly. Below are
> the details of my 
> system and the errors I am getting (I hope you don't
> mind all of the 
> detail).
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD sofie.sentinelchicken.net 6.1-PRERELEASE
> FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE 
> #25: Fri Apr  7 00:38:30 UTC 2006 
>
root at sofie.sentinelchicken.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOFIE
> amd64
> 
> # more /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> [snip]
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "xtrap"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
> EndSection
> 
> [...]
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "radeon"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955
> (PCIE)"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
>         Option      "BusType"                  
> "PCIE"
> EndSection
> [snip]
> 
> >From the Xorg logs:
> 
> # more Xorg.0.log
> [snip]
> 
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or
> directory)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or
> directory)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or
> directory)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or
> directory)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. 
> Disabling DRI.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I am loading the agp and drm kernel modules from
> /boot/loader.conf. I 
> had them compiled into the kernel, but the same
> problems occured. 
> 
> #kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1   11 0xffffffff80100000 65b870   kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff8075c000 60e0     snd_atiixp.ko
>  3    2 0xffffffff80763000 34770    sound.ko
>  4    2 0xffffffff80798000 9db0     agp.ko
>  5    1 0xffffffff807a2000 2b178    radeon.ko
>  6    2 0xffffffff807ce000 1a090    drm.ko
>  7    1 0xffffffff807e9000 37f0     wlan_tkip.ko
> 
> >From the terminal when loading:
> 
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. 
> Disabling DRI.
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce4: X server already running
> on display :0
> 
> Now, I can disable DRI, but that doesn't solve all
> of my trouble. 
> Basically, the most annoying symptom of my problems
> is the fact that my 
> 'desktop' (I have no better description, sorry)
> doesn't work. While I 
> can use the XFCE panel, if I right-click on the
> background, nothing 
> happens. I have no background image, as I should,
> and instead have the 
> default black and white X checkered pattern. I have
> tried using the vesa 
> driver, but get a lot of screen tearing and color
> issues and the 
> 'desktop' still doesn't fuction. I have tried the
> dri, dri-devel, and 
> linux_dri because, at first, I thought it was a dri
> issue. Apparently 
> it's not. After recompiling absolutely everything,
> trying blackbox 
> instead of XFCE4, and any number of module
> loading/kernel compiling 
> options, I am at a complete loss.
> 
> I would appreciate any advice that can be offered.
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Jason
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