Radeon DRIVER

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 5 10:13:11 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:19 +1000, Alex wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> Have csup'd, rebuilt world and also rebuilt the radeonhd driver from git 
> just a moment ago, and still have the same issues.
> 
> Any ideas?

Not really... The only thing I can think of is if it might be related to
vblank and/or interrupts somehow... but I've been running the x1650 on
amd64 and i386 builds today and they both work perfectly...  I'm
actually wondering if it might not be a window manager issue or
something at this point... 

robert.

> Alex.
> 
> Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:37 +1100, Alex wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Robert,
> >>
> >> Sorry to be a pest, I realize you have plenty of other issues to contend 
> >> with atm, just wondering whether you have some ideas on what may be 
> >> causing the issue I am experiencing when enabling DRI? I have disabled 
> >> DRI for the time being because of the trailing mess that gets left 
> >> behind on the screen when I drag windows on the screen.
> >>
> >> have there been any updates to the DRM code?
> >>     
> >
> > Several actually... I don't know specifically if they might address your
> > issue.  I was trying to look at a radeon "garbled screen" issue today
> > that might be relevant...
> >
> > I am running on an x1650 right now, without issue though... So I don't
> > know why the issue only effects some chips...
> >
> > robert.
> >
> >   
> >> Alex wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi Robert,
> >>>
> >>> I am using the Radeonhd Driver from git. DRI wouldn't even work at all 
> >>> until I used the git driver.
> >>>
> >>> The driver from git was obtained on the 12th March
> >>>
> >>> Robert Noland wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 06:55 +1100, Alex wrote:
> >>>>  
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Hi Robert,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any suggestions on this? The problems occur as soon as I enable DRI. 
> >>>>> xv is working, however I have the issue(s) below:
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Which driver are you using and what version?  I still suggest radeonhd
> >>>> from git... I did also commit an updated xf86-video-ati yesterday, that
> >>>> is supposed to have support in it... You might try that.
> >>>>
> >>>> robert.
> >>>>
> >>>>  
> >>>>         
> >>>>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>>>> Subject:     Re: Radeon DRIVER
> >>>>> Date:     Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:51:15 +1100
> >>>>> From:     Alex <alex at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>>>> To:     freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> >>>>> References:     <20090305161651.GB1369 at lobo.ewinter.org> 
> >>>>> <1236275215.1384.50.camel at widget.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <20090305180523.GA2039 at lobo.ewinter.org> 
> >>>>> <20090306133119.1af6894c at ernst.jennejohn.org> 
> >>>>> <1236363408.55221.16.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <20090306203055.582faa02 at ernst.jennejohn.org> 
> >>>>> <1236371734.1671.5.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <49B3D755.2050308 at phat.za.net> 
> >>>>> <1236536316.1778.22.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <49B42548.3000308 at phat.za.net> <49B57ACD.5030405 at phat.za.net> 
> >>>>> <1236741375.2091.32.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <49B72FEC.2090909 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <1236746127.2091.33.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <49B7600A.50204 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <49B76134.5050501 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <49B76330.60703 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <1236761094.1697.5.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <49B7AEE7.4060704 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <1236796811.1679.9.camel at balrog.2hip.net> 
> >>>>> <49B815BF.30704 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <49B83174.3080002 at phat.za.net> 
> >>>>> <49B8709A.20809 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net> 
> >>>>> <49B871CC.1070600 at mailinglist.ahhyes! .net>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have some weird things going on now...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sometimes when I drag a window, a copy of the window is left behind 
> >>>>> in the previous position (background is not restored), refer to this 
> >>>>> screenshot:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://ahhyes.net/gfxweird.jpg
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have mozilla firefox open. I have dragged the window down but 
> >>>>> there is still image data at the top where the image previously was. 
> >>>>> If I close the application both images are cleared and everything 
> >>>>> appears normal.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Similar things happen in a terminal window as well. If i issue the 
> >>>>> "clear" command to clear the window contents, part of the window are 
> >>>>> cleared but there are still characters here and there from the 
> >>>>> previous screen content.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any ideas?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Alex wrote:
> >>>>>    
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks to everyone that helped!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Alex wrote:
> >>>>>>      
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>>>> Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> >>>>>>>        
> >>>>>>>               
> >>>>>>>> Alex wrote:
> >>>>>>>>          
> >>>>>>>>                 
> >>>>>>>>> Have all the above already. Build is broken.
> >>>>>>>>>             
> >>>>>>>>>                   
> >>>>>>>> After just getting DRI working on my RV620, I might suggest using 
> >>>>>>>> the x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel port instead.  Seems to 
> >>>>>>>> work well here, and builds without a hitch of course. :)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>>> Aragon
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>           
> >>>>>>>>                 
> >>>>>>> Thank you! That gave me a vital clue. I looked at the Makefile for 
> >>>>>>> that port as I could see that the configure script for the port 
> >>>>>>> was finding PCIUTILS fine, but the configure script for the driver 
> >>>>>>> in git wasnt. The Makefile defines some variables, and I was able 
> >>>>>>> to get the driver to build by doing the following:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# export 
> >>>>>>> PCIUTILS_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -lpci -lz"
> >>>>>>> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# export 
> >>>>>>> PCIUTILS_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib"
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Now to install the driver and test.. I'll get back to the list 
> >>>>>>> with the results.
> >>>>>>>
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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