Xorg crashes and reboots my computer
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 26 01:09:12 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:55 -0500, François Leclerc wrote:
> 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"?
I would need to see the full log at least to have a clue... It is most
likely referring to either libdrm or the actual kernel...
robert.
> 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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