Radeon DRIVER
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 19 18:13:02 PDT 2009
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:37 +1100, Alex wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Sorry to be a pest, I realize you have plenty of other issues to contend
> with atm, just wondering whether you have some ideas on what may be
> causing the issue I am experiencing when enabling DRI? I have disabled
> DRI for the time being because of the trailing mess that gets left
> behind on the screen when I drag windows on the screen.
>
> have there been any updates to the DRM code?
Several actually... I don't know specifically if they might address your
issue. I was trying to look at a radeon "garbled screen" issue today
that might be relevant...
I am running on an x1650 right now, without issue though... So I don't
know why the issue only effects some chips...
robert.
>
> Alex wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > I am using the Radeonhd Driver from git. DRI wouldn't even work at all
> > until I used the git driver.
> >
> > The driver from git was obtained on the 12th March
> >
> > Robert Noland wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 06:55 +1100, Alex wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Robert,
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions on this? The problems occur as soon as I enable DRI.
> >>> xv is working, however I have the issue(s) below:
> >>>
> >>
> >> Which driver are you using and what version? I still suggest radeonhd
> >> from git... I did also commit an updated xf86-video-ati yesterday, that
> >> is supposed to have support in it... You might try that.
> >>
> >> robert.
> >>
> >>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>> Subject: Re: Radeon DRIVER
> >>> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:51:15 +1100
> >>> From: Alex <alex at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> To: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> >>> References: <20090305161651.GB1369 at lobo.ewinter.org>
> >>> <1236275215.1384.50.camel at widget.2hip.net>
> >>> <20090305180523.GA2039 at lobo.ewinter.org>
> >>> <20090306133119.1af6894c at ernst.jennejohn.org>
> >>> <1236363408.55221.16.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <20090306203055.582faa02 at ernst.jennejohn.org>
> >>> <1236371734.1671.5.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <49B3D755.2050308 at phat.za.net>
> >>> <1236536316.1778.22.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <49B42548.3000308 at phat.za.net> <49B57ACD.5030405 at phat.za.net>
> >>> <1236741375.2091.32.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <49B72FEC.2090909 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <1236746127.2091.33.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <49B7600A.50204 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <49B76134.5050501 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <49B76330.60703 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <1236761094.1697.5.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <49B7AEE7.4060704 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <1236796811.1679.9.camel at balrog.2hip.net>
> >>> <49B815BF.30704 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <49B83174.3080002 at phat.za.net>
> >>> <49B8709A.20809 at mailinglist.ahhyes.net>
> >>> <49B871CC.1070600 at mailinglist.ahhyes! .net>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I have some weird things going on now...
> >>>
> >>> Sometimes when I drag a window, a copy of the window is left behind
> >>> in the previous position (background is not restored), refer to this
> >>> screenshot:
> >>>
> >>> http://ahhyes.net/gfxweird.jpg
> >>>
> >>> I have mozilla firefox open. I have dragged the window down but
> >>> there is still image data at the top where the image previously was.
> >>> If I close the application both images are cleared and everything
> >>> appears normal.
> >>>
> >>> Similar things happen in a terminal window as well. If i issue the
> >>> "clear" command to clear the window contents, part of the window are
> >>> cleared but there are still characters here and there from the
> >>> previous screen content.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas?
> >>>
> >>> Alex wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>>>
> >>>> WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks to everyone that helped!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Alex wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Alex wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Have all the above already. Build is broken.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> After just getting DRI working on my RV620, I might suggest using
> >>>>>> the x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel port instead. Seems to
> >>>>>> work well here, and builds without a hitch of course. :)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> Aragon
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you! That gave me a vital clue. I looked at the Makefile for
> >>>>> that port as I could see that the configure script for the port
> >>>>> was finding PCIUTILS fine, but the configure script for the driver
> >>>>> in git wasnt. The Makefile defines some variables, and I was able
> >>>>> to get the driver to build by doing the following:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# export
> >>>>> PCIUTILS_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -lpci -lz"
> >>>>> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# export
> >>>>> PCIUTILS_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now to install the driver and test.. I'll get back to the list
> >>>>> with the results.
> >>>>>
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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