DRI on FreeBSD with a PCIe X800

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

For anyone interested in following this, I've opened up a problem
report:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106370

Adam

> Hello all,
> 
>     I'm having a problem getting direct rendering working on one of
> my 
> workstations.  I'm running -CURRENT from November 17th with Xorg 
> installed from the modular Xorg ports tree yesterday (though I first 
> noticed this a couple weeks back when I built modular Xorg using
> jhbuild):
> 
> [ adamk at sorrow - ~ ]: Xorg -version
> 
> X Window System Version 7.1.1
> Release Date: 12 May 2006
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD sorrow.ashke.com 7.0-CURRENT
> FreeBSD 
> 7.0-CURRENT #7: Tue Nov 14 08:33:41 EST 2006     
> root at sorrow.ashke.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> Build Date: 28 November 2006
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> 
> If I boot up with DRI enabled in the config file, the server starts,
> but 
> the very top of the screen shows some visual corruption. 
> 
> http://www.visualtech.com/screenshot.png
> 
> I dropped the resolution of the image from 2304x864 to 1600x800, but
> you 
> can still make out the corruption.  What's particularly odd, though,
> is 
> that the root window is never drawn.  The background you see is
> actually 
> the background from my previous X session (when I had DRI disabled), 
> using windowmaker.  This time I launched X and had fvwm2 in
> my .xinitrc 
> file (you can see the outline of the fvwm pager in the screenshot, 
> though that never finished drawing, either).
> 
> After that nothing else gets drawn.  I can move the mouse pointer,
> but 
> that's about it.  I can safely kill X and restart it, but the same
> thing 
> happens unless I disable DRI.
> 
> In comparison, I have another workstation with an AGP x700.  -CURRENT 
> from the same date, and modular Xorg from the ports tree from
> yesterday, 
> too.  It works just fine (start up fine, and the mesa demos run with 
> acceleration). 
> 
> You can find the Xorg log file from the PCIe system at 
> http://www.visualtech.com/Xorg.0.log.gz
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
> 
> Adam
>