Xorg crashes and reboots my computer

[François Leclerc]

Hi,

I have new information. I said in an earlier message that when I disabled
dri and dri2, things worked well - when issuing a xinit command. It does,
only when I get back in console mode, there is an error (which occured when
xinit was called):

(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed (libdri too old)

I had removed X, deleted my ports tree, rebuilt it using portsnap and then
re-installed X. What needs to be updated now if my library is "too old"?

Thanks.

2009/12/30 Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org>

> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:43 -0500, François Leclerc wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw that someone already posted something similar. I have the same
> > problem.
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-December/009124.html
> >
> > My system is: Intel Q6600 on a ASUS Maximus X38 board with a Radeon HD
> 3870.
> >
> > I have FreeBSD - 8.0 - STABLE - AMD64 installed.
> >
> > It doesn't matter which driver I use (radeon or radeonhd), my machine
> > freezes or reboots when switching to graphical mode. Note that my
> xorg.conf
> > file is ok as per "Xorg -config xorg.conf -retro": I get the grey screen
> and
> > my mouse cursor is working correctly. Things get bad when I "xinit" or
> > "startx". If I disable "dri" and "dri2" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf things work
> > flawlessly.
> >
> > I read the list and someone else mentionned a new version of Xorg (7.6.1
> I
> > think) is due soon. Will it fix issues like the one we are having? When
> will
> > it be released?
>
> The "7.6.1" that is referred to is Mesa, not Xorg.  (libGL and dri,
> among other bits)  That is needed for 3d.  I'll need a bit more info
> before I can try to diagnose the issue though.  Let's start with a
> "pciconf -lvb".  I may already have a patch to fix this, but the
> reported issue is generally screen corruption, not panics.
>
> robert.
>
> > Like the other poster, I can work with VESA in the meantime, but I would
> > prefer this issue fixed!
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > François
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