Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-10-17 Thread Eivind E
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Jim Pingle wrote: Not meaning to resurrect a month-old thread but I'm a bit behind on my list mail. I just thought I'd pass long that I had problems in the past with my older Radeon when using a VGA to DVI connector. Using either a normal VGA port, or a DVI cable on the DVI

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
On 9/16/2010 12:20 PM, Eivind E wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: (WW) RADEONHD(0): !!! Option HPD is set !!! This shall only be used to work around broken connector tables. Please report your findings to radeo...@opensuse.org

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-22 Thread Eivind E
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: Can I suggest adding a Virtual 1280 1024 (or similar) to the 'SubSection Display' of 'Section Screen'. I ran into some wierd problems with multiple screens and found that the virtual size isn't correctly initialised unless it's explicitly specified.

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-22 Thread Eivind E
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: In my case, this is exactly the other way around. There was atime when radeonhd and radeon both worked with radeon boards, even with DRI set to on. I recall the the time, whe radeonhd was ugraded to semthing like 1.2.8 or so the problems started

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-15 22:29:46 +0200, Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: That has crossed my mind aswell, the only thing which makes me doubt it is that after updating X number of months ago (probably about a year and a half), it started to work with no problems whatsoever. Now, after upgrading

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 09/19/10 08:20, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Sep-15 22:29:46 +0200, Eivind Eeivi...@terraplane.org wrote: That has crossed my mind aswell, the only thing which makes me doubt it is that after updating X number of months ago (probably about a year and a half), it started to work with no

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-16 Thread Eivind E
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: (WW) RADEONHD(0): !!! Option HPD is set !!! This shall only be used to work around broken connector tables. Please report your findings to radeo...@opensuse.org radeon doesn't have this option at all. (II)

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-16 Thread J.R. Oldroyd
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:20:35 +0200 (CEST), Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: I'll try another card (not radeon) this evening, and if that works, I won't bother with the radeon anymore. This is my primary working machine and I need to be able to use it again. I do however wish to thank

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-16 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: (WW) RADEONHD(0): !!! Option HPD is set !!! This shall only be used to work around broken connector tables. Please report your findings to radeo...@opensuse.org radeon

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-16 Thread Eivind E
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, J.R. Oldroyd wrote: Finally I tried the radeonhd driver from the experimental port in x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel. This works perfectly for me: good performance AND xvideo support. I tried this driver aswell, it still locked up. I've replaced the card with an

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-16 Thread Eivind E
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: The port names are specific to the driver. I'd guess it should be Option Monitor-DV-I_1 Skjerm Thanks, I'll make a note of it if I put the card back to check it later on. -- _ _ // \\// Eivind Evensen \/

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Atkinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/2010 15:39, Oliver Pinter wrote: Hi all! it's an old problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009372.html And still exist... with or without dri/3d, it's a bug between freebsd agp and xorg-server. When

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-15 Thread Eivind E
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: First, the intermittent nature of the problem sounds like it might be hardware failure. The only easy way to test that would be to swap in another video board, but people rarely have extras. That has crossed

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-15 Thread Eivind E
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: Was OP unloading the radeon kernel module? I can verify that once the radeon module is unloaded, it doesn't work after reloading. But for me, X just complains about no screens found, it doesn't lock up. If the radeon module stays loaded, X starts

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-15 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: (WW) RADEONHD(0): !!! Option HPD is set !!! This shall only be used to work around broken connector tables. Please report your findings to radeo...@opensuse.org radeon doesn't have this option at all. (--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RV505 on a HIS

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Pavel Gorshkov
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:47:18PM +0200, Eivind E wrote: Yeah, still hangs hard. Trying the normal radeon driver together with Option DRI False as suggested to me in another mail did let X start up once, but set the screen to much darker colours (which also continued when exiting). Starting X

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Eivind E
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04:16AM +0200, Eivind E wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: snip Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too. Keep in mind that normal radeon driver is

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote: The machine is now running FreeBSD 8.1, but after rebuilding all packages via ports, the problem with the radeonhd driver is back, showing exactly the same behaviour as before. Did you try the normal radeon

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Eivind E
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote: The machine is now running FreeBSD 8.1, but after rebuilding all packages via ports, the problem with the radeonhd driver is back, showing exactly the same behaviour as

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Eivind E
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Pavel Gorshkov wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:47:18PM +0200, Eivind E wrote: Yeah, still hangs hard. Trying the normal radeon driver together with Option DRI False as suggested to me in another mail did let X start up once, but set the screen to much darker colours

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: First, the intermittent nature of the problem sounds like it might be hardware failure. The only easy way to test that would be to swap in another video board, but people rarely have extras. You also mentioned upgrading from 7.x to 8.1. It's worth

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Oliver Pinter
Hi all! it's an old problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009372.html And still exist... with or without dri/3d, it's a bug between freebsd agp and xorg-server. When you use vesa, than this problem is elliminated. With radeon or radeon-hd driver, the problem come

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Oliver Pinter wrote: it's an old problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009372.html Please don't top-post, it makes responding more difficult. And still exist... with or without dri/3d, it's a bug between freebsd agp and xorg-server.

Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Eivind E
Hello, I'm hoping somebody can shed some light on this. One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock didn't work, no network (so no ssh) and I

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock didn't work, no network (so no ssh) and I couldn't do

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Eivind E
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the machine hard, screen went blank, numlock and capslock didn't work,

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Eivind E
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:16:48PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eivind E eivi...@terraplane.org wrote: One of my machines has a Radeon X1550 graphics card. When first installed (then as either 7.1 or 7.1 prerelease), the radeonhd driver hung the

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Lucas Holt
On 09/13/10 18:04, Eivind E wrote: Tried to substitute the driver with ati and loading radeon.ko (which automatically loaded drm.ko) and had the same results as the plain radeon driver. X starts up once in a while, but the screen goes to about half of normal brightness and the view is moved

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04:16AM +0200, Eivind E wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Roland Smith wrote: snip Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, too. Keep in mind that normal radeon driver is called x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati