[HEADS UP] Radeon r6/7xx drm code to be committed

[Kip Macy]

radeon locks up my system, use radeonhd

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM, O. Hartmann
<ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Kip Macy wrote:
>> I have an HD4850 and it works well. Unfortunately it is the one from
>> ASUS where only one port does dual-link.
>>
>> -Kip
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, March 9, 2009 13:53, Robert Noland wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>  > >  This should work on pretty much all Radeon r600+ cards (and the
>>>>>>
>>>>> older
>>>>>
>>>>>>  > >  stuff as well).  With the appropriate X drivers, you should get
>>>>>>
>>>>> EXA
>>>>>
>>>>>>  > >  accelleration and Xv.  3d is not available yet, afaik.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  This is kernel code and has nothing directly to do with ports.
>>>>>>
>>>>>      Let me be more specific.
>>>>>      Assuming I'm using a 3850, which I believe is the RV670
>>>>> chipset, is there anything I will need to change in xorg.conf (or
>>>>> elsewhere) to take advantage of/not break the new code?
>>>>>
>>>> rv670 is what I'm testing on... I tried to put a few details in the
>>>> commit message.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, for R600+ you have to force DRI on for the moment.  You
>>>> should also be using exa.
>>>>
>>>> So, right now, I'm using radeonhd from git master, with :
>>>>
>>>>         Driver      "radeonhd"
>>>>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>>>>         BoardName   "RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850]"
>>>>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>>>>         Option      "DRI"
>>>>         Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>>>>         Option      "Audio"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> robert.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>                              Robert Huff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> FreeBSD
>>>>
>>> I'm planning to move from nVidia to ATi, and all this work is what makes
>>> me do that. This code you're talking about, would benefit a HD4850 ?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> matheus
>>>
>>> --
>>> We will call you cygnus,
>>> The God of balance you shall be
>>>
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> I use a MSI HD4830 on a UP FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 box with
>
> Driver   "radeon"
>
> from ports/xorg-7.4. Without EXA and DRI the graphics card works well,
> but when enabling EXA and/or DRI, system goes mustang. Ctrl-Alt-FX
> doesn't bring back a console, the tty is 'blinking' as it looks like the
> X server tries to start and fails.
>
> On another box, running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64, but SMP and MSI
> HD4670, with EXA and DRI enabled the whole box crashes immediately when
> loading Xserver. Without EXA and DRI, leaving a windowmaker session and
> therefore ending the Xserver kills the box, the OS dies and coredumps or
> hangs forever with a tiled screen showing 3 rows of 6 columns of the
> console screen on a 20,1 inch TFT.
>