Xorg configure failure with Radeon card

[Tony Sweeney]

On 11/17/2014 00:48, Tony Sweeney wrote:
> On 11/16/2014 18:20, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>> On 16.11.2014 18:40, Tony Sweeney wrote:
>>> On 11/16/2014 17:23, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>>>> Can you double-check that xf86-video-ati is installed? X doesn't even
>>>> try to load it.
>>>>
>>> Seems to be:
>>>
>>> root at sleekit:/etc # pkg info xf86-video-ati-7.5.0
>>> xf86-video-ati-7.5.0
>>> Name           : xf86-video-ati
>>> Version        : 7.5.0
>>> ...
>>> This package contains the X.Org xf86-video-ati driver.
>>> root at sleekit:/etc # locate radeon_drv.so
>>> /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
>>> root at sleekit:/etc # locate ati_drv.so
>>> /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
>>
>> locate(1) doesn't check the files actually exist. Could you check they
>> are present?
>
> I'm aware of that. They are present:
>
> root at sleekit:/etc # ls -l `!58`
> ls -l `locate radeon_drv.so`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  419776 Nov  6 07:50
> /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> root at sleekit:/etc # ls -l `!59`
> ls -l `locate ati_drv.so`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6872 Nov  6 07:50
> /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
> root at sleekit:/etc #
>
>
>>
>> I assume you don't have any xorg.conf?
>>
> Near as I can tell:
>
> root at sleekit:/etc # /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
>  >>> WARNING
>  >>> Executing updatedb as root.  This WILL reveal all filenames
>  >>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
> root at sleekit:/etc # locate xorg.conf
> /root/xorg.conf.new
> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
> /usr/local/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
> /usr/local/man/man5/xorg.conf.d.5.gz
> root at sleekit:/etc #
>
>
So, rather than simply pouting about how this doesn't quite work as 
advertised, is there something I can do to contribute to making this 
better?  I was a C/UNIX porting engineer for Ingres back in the day and 
have made minor contributions to a couple of open source projects,  At 
minimum I am happy to run this in a debugger to track down the 
segmentation violation if someone would point me in the direction of how 
to do that.  I'm very aware that the FreeBSD X11 team is thinly staffed, 
and greatly appreciate their efforts to engage on this mailing list.  If 
I can help at all I will.

Tony.


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