X troubles (possibly radeon related)

[Fred Cox]

One of my experiments was to upgrade the X.org port
without upgrading the kernel/world.  That broke my
system.

There may well be bugs on the vga/radeon drivers that
get brought out by the 6.9.0 Xorg upgrade, but no one
who has the expertise has yet even responded on the
issue.

Fred

--- Albert Vest <alvest at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:58:40 -0700 (PDT)
> Fred Cox <sailorfred at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Several people have reported problems with X.org
> 6.9
> > and Radeon X300, which were "solved" by going back
> to
> > 6.8.2.  This includes total machine lockup with
> the
> > default vga driver as well as various ati and
> radeon
> > drivers.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any
> visible
> > action on the problem.  I get no response when I
> email
> > the Xorg maintainer.
> > 
> > I don't think they want to believe they've broken
> > something.  They want to blame the drivers.
> 
> They may not be entirely wrong there.  Before the
> 6.9 ports upgrade, there were some changes in the
> /src/sys/dev/drm code about mid-December 2005.  I
> had DRI working with my X300 before then (9100 IGP,
> onboard; mobo only has one expansion slot which is
> vanilla PCI so it's my only graphics option), but
> after rebuilding system & kernel+modules, it stopped
> working again.
> 
> -- 
> Albert Vest, al vest at earth link dot net
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