PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE

[Robert Noland]

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:28 -0500, Greg Rowe wrote:
> My system has a Gigabyte Radeon HD4850 1GB PCI Express Card in it. The main
> board is an ASUS P5N7A-VM, 4GB ram (tested with 2GB also), Intel Core 2 Duo
> E6850, on-board video disabled in the BIOS, and the BIOS is flashed to
> ASUS's latest release. I'm using a single monitor off the DVI port.
> 
>  I'm running the ATI Radeon driver as it works well with the exception of
> DRI. I've tried the released and development version of the RadeonHD driver
> but both pretty much lock up X. Whether it helps or not, the background
> garbage on the screen I see with the ATI driver is more visible with the hd
> drivers and it's the ASUS Bios splash screen in tiny font many times across
> the screen.  Dmesg and Memcontrol.list from Xorg with DRI enabled is
> attached.

Please send "pciconf -lvb".  In your case, it looks like the framebuffer
may be cached which would likely be the reason that you are seeing bits
of the bios screen showing up.

robert.



> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Polyack [mailto:korvus at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:11 PM
> > To: Andriy Gapon
> > Cc: Greg Rowe; rnoland at freebsd.org; freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org; John Baldwin
> > Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 9250 - DRI/DRM in 8.0-RELEASE
> > 
> > Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > > on 11/12/2009 23:14 Greg Rowe said the following:
> > >
> > >> Robert,
> > >>  I tried the pagezero patch (applied, rebuilt kernel, rebooted, Xorg
> > with DRI
> > >> enabled) on my system with the Radeon HD4850 and it didn't change
> > anything.
> > >> See the attached. Thanks.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Greg, Steve, could you please describe your systems some more?
> > > Type of CPU, if this is SMP.
> > > Providing a link to your dmesg should be helpful.
> > > 'memcontrol list' output could be useful too.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > I have yet to try the patch, but my system is a a ~3Ghz Pentium 4 with
> > Hyperthreading enabled.  Intel chipset (not sure which, but the USB/SATA
> > are the ICH7) with onboard graphics.  The Radeon 9250 is a PCI add-on.
> > I'm also using both outputs on the card (1 VGA, 1 DVI).  I've attached
> > the output of 'dmesg' and 'pciconf -l -v'.
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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