problem with radeon X1400 under freebsd 8-current

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 16 05:35:29 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:57 +0300, jackal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for a delay, but I couldn't catch the working state.
> I sent traces to your email directly. Thank you for helping.

Thanks, I don't really see anything that looks wrong in drm.  Can you
describe what you mean by garbled?  Also, which versions of xserver,
radeon driver, and mesa?

robert.

> 
> On Friday 12 December 2008 17:01:40 you wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 13:54 +0300, jackal wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a problem with Radeon X1400 (dell 6400) under freebsd 8-current:
> > >
> > > startx results in a garbled screen when using the 'radeon' driver.
> > > So I had to disable acceleration. About an hour later, when I turning on
> > > acceleration - it works perfect. Then I can restart X many times - it
> > > works. But after rebooting the problem repeats.
> > >
> > > I compared some 'good' and 'bad' logs, the difference follows.
> > > I can see, that everything works when these variables are zero:
> > > Ring contents 0x00000000
> > > Ring read ptr contents 0x00000000
> > > Vertex/indirect buffers contents 0x00000000
> > >
> > > But I have no idea, how to reset these manually, and why it resets itself
> > > in a hour.
> >
> > Can you send me a drm debug?  After boot, kldload radeon, sysctl
> > hw.dri.0.debug=1, startx.  another trace when it works might be useful
> > as well.
> >
> > robert.
> >
> 
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