Hi. I also posted about this problem on the FreeBSD mailing list.
FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE Motherboard: gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 R2 Video: Integrated ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics I have also tested with two additional ATI cards. A Radeon HD 5450 and and older card that shows as "RV370 [Radeon X300 SE]" in the PCI info. Same problem on all of them. System runs fine with a simple stand alone window manager such as jwm, openbox, etc. But anytime I run a desktop environment that has a panel and/or desktop icons, the X desktop takes a very long time to start up and runs extremely slow and unresponsive, the pointer jumps instead of moving smoothly, and the main Xorg process runs at 100% load on one core. I have tried several different desktops, such as xfce, enlightenment, lumina, etc. Similar problem on all of them. The weird thing is that, every once in a while, when I launch X, it comes up quick and runs fine. Shut down X and re-run it and it's back doing it again. Once it comes up working correctly, it stays working until I restart X. I have tried re-installing all the ports from X11 and the desktop environments from FreeBSD 11 release_1, release_2, quarterly, and latest. Same problem with all of them. Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this? I don't know if for sure if this is a FreeBSD or an xorg problem. Here are radeon kernel modules running when running on the Radeon HD 3000. # kldstat 5 1 0xffffffff82431000 12b4a0 radeonkms.ko ... 10 1 0xffffffff825b9000 103e radeonkmsfw_RS780_pfp.ko 11 1 0xffffffff825bb000 5b3f radeonkmsfw_RS780_me.ko 12 1 0xffffffff825c1000 1338 radeonkmsfw_R600_rlc.ko X is using the ati driver from the xf86-video-ati-7.9.0_1,1 package. The evidence points stongly toward it being an ATI driver problem. If I edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the "vesa" driver rather than the "radeon" driver the problem goes away. But, of course, the vesa driver is low resolution and does not re-initialize the console when I exit X. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
