Re: 6.0-current panic: loading radeon module

From: Jonathan Noack (noackjr_at_alumni.rice.edu)
Date: 06/17/05

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    Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:40:22 -0500
To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>

    On 6/17/2005 12:18 PM, Martin Cracauer wrote:
    > Steve Roome wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:03:32PM +0100:
    >>If it's any iterest, I had a similar experience earlier this week.
    >>
    >>xorg-server-6.8.99.5 with a radeon 9600 X and -current as of Monday
    >>causes my entire machine to freeze up completely rather than just
    >>panic.
    >>
    >>It's fine if I take drm option out of the x config again - so it's
    >>only when I actually use DRM, and for me it's a black screen and hard
    >>lockup.
    >
    > This is odd. DRI (and hence DRM) only support radeons up to 9200
    > (really 9250 probably). Your 9600 series shouldn't have a need for
    > the drm module in first place.

    The r300 project (http://r300.sourceforge.net) is getting tantalizingly
    close to usable DRI for newer radeons. I saw glxgears running at 2600+
    fps for about 15 seconds before the 3D engine on my 9800 Pro locked up.
      I finally got tired of manually merging Mesa commits and translating
    linux drm changes to bsd so I'm no longer using it. If you're
    interested, here's the basic instructions:
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2005-May/001903.html

    Note that it requires a decent amount of effort just to get it to
    compile, much less do anything useful. Abandon hope, all ye who enter
    here... 

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