problem with radeon X1400 under freebsd 8-current

jackal me at jackal.in
Tue Dec 16 06:26:49 PST 2008


Hello,

On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:35:20 you wrote:
> 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?  

Screenshots:
http://jackal.in/x11/garbled.html


> Also, which versions of xserver, 
> radeon driver, and mesa?

All latest from ports.
dri-7.0.3_1,2       OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for the DRI
xf86-video-ati-6.9.0 X.Org ati display driver
xorg-server-1.4.2,1 X.Org X server and related programs


>
> 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.


-- 
Kind regards, Eugeny.


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