Problems Testing New Radeon Code

[Mike Lothian]

2009/5/6 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
> On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 21:06 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> 2009/5/2 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
>> > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 07:35 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> >> 2009/5/2 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
>> >> > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 20:59 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> >> >> Hi there
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I've had a few issues testing the new radeon code and rather than do
>> >> >> all this through comments on a blog I thought the mailing lists would
>> >> >> be better
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I've attached the above logs
>> >> >>
>> >> >> X doesn't start with KMS (KMS works during boot)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> with radeon.modeset=0 being passed but playing a video full screen or
>> >> >> activating kwin compositing makes the session unusable
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The proof attachment shows what branches and where head was at during
>> >> >> compile time
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Mike
>> >> >
>> >> > Quick guess you are missing DRI2 bits, either too old xserver (need 1.6
>> >> > at least) or no dri2 proto installed. Still i don't understand what
>> >> > you mean by radeon.modeset=0, with radeon.modeset=0 everythings should
>> >> > work as with no kms (ie it use old code path which should be more or
>> >> > less what you already have).
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Jerome Glisse
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> My whole xorg stack is the latest git head my Xorg.0.log should confirm that
>> >>
>> >
>> > Still X tries to initialize DRI1 instead of DRI2 the cause is likely
>> > because Xserver is not compiled with DRI2 enabled (i thought it was
>> > default). I will hack ddx to fail if Xserver tries to initialize DRI1
>> > when in KMS mode.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Jerome Glisse
>> >
>> >
>>
>> If you look in the Xorg log you can see that dri2 is loaded
>>
>
> I am working on ironing out a lockup, once i am done with that i will
> update ddx to give more information on where it fails and why. Note
> that my ddx may not work with lastest Xserver from git (i am using
> 1.6 or 1.6.1) i will update ddx bits too once i am done with fixing
> more urgent bug in this WIP code.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome Glisse
>
>

Ah that'll probably be the issue. I've been using pure git head for
the entire Xorg stack

Just give me a shot when it's ready to text

Cheers

Mike