KMS sad story

[Marat N.Afanasyev]

Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>> On 21.01.2014 21:55, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
>>> it's already unset:
>>>
>>> debug.debugger_on_panic: 0
>>> debug.trace_on_panic: 1
>>>
>>> how long should I wait after hang to press reset? I have 8GB of memory
>>
>> The computer should reboot once the crash dump is written. But in your
>> case, I don't think there's a panic.
>>
>>> BTW, should I remove KDB/DDB from my kernel config to obtain crash
>>> dumps?
>>
>> No, keep them.
>>
>> In the dmesg you provided, I see that your card is properly initialized.
>>
>> However, you're using the older X.Org stack, based on your installed
>> packages list:
>>    libdrm-2.4.17_1
>>    xf86-video-ati-6.14.6_1
>>    xorg-server-1.7.7_11,1
>>
>> To install the newer stack, you must set the following variables in your
>> /etc/make.conf:
>>    WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
>>    WITH_GALLIUM=yes
>>
>> Then, update your installed ports (eg. portmaster -a). After the update,
>> you have to rebuild xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse (maybe
>> xf86-video-vesa too), so that they match the installed X.Org server.
>>
>> The full procedure is described on the wiki:
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports
>>
> My packages list was generated after I downgraded to ums based xorg,
> because of annoying hangs.
>
> before that the following versions were installed:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   353607 22 янв 15:56 libGL-9.1.7.tbz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   219091 21 янв 01:49 libGLU-9.0.0.tbz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   187808 21 янв 18:12 libdrm-2.4.50.tbz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   136529 21 янв 18:18 xf86-video-ati-7.2.0_1.tbz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1868894 21 янв 18:17 xorg-server-1.12.4_4,1.tbz
>
> Initially everything was built as described in
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports
>
> you can see commented out
>
> #WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
> #WITH_GALLIUM=yes
>
> in my make.conf
>
Jean, do you, per chance, have any ideas how this can be, if not fixed, 
at least found out what's happening? I do want to switch to KMS-based 
drivers, but five resets per day is not something I want to endure :(

-- 
SY, Marat

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