Problems with the ATi Radeon X800 on Xorg 7.4 (PC-BSD 7.1)

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Eugeniy Khvastunov
<khvastunov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have trouble with subj.
>
> When using both(radeon or ati) Xorg starts, there is a background
> image, but not drawn greeting box.
> Here is screenshoot http://unlimite.org.ua/IMAGE_00007.jpg

ati and radeon are the same driver.  ati is just a wrapper that loads
radeon, mach64 or r128 based on the PCI ID.

>
> I noticed that the PC-BSD 1.5.1 using R300 Microcode:
> drm0: <ATI Radeon R480 X850 Pro> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
> 0xe0000000-0xefffffff, 0xdffe0000-0xdffeffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524
> info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> info: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
> info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
>
> and PC-BSD 7.1 R400 Microcode:
> Mar 29 16:04:04 pcbsd kernel: drm0: <ATI Radeon R480 X850 Pro> on vgapci0
> Mar 29 16:04:04 pcbsd kernel: vgapci0: child drm0 requested
> pci_enable_busmaster
> Mar 29 16:04:04 pcbsd kernel: info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528
> Mar 29 16:04:05 pcbsd kernel: info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new
> memory map
> Mar 29 16:04:05 pcbsd kernel: info: [drm] Loading R400 Microcode
> Mar 29 16:04:05 pcbsd kernel: info: [drm] Num pipes: 3
> Mar 29 16:04:05 pcbsd kernel: info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1
> usecs
> Mar 29 16:04:05 pcbsd kernel: drm0: [ITHREAD]
> Mar 29 16:04:12 pcbsd kernel: info: [drm] Num pipes: 3
>
> What information do I need to provide to help you correct this problem?

Your Xorg log would be a good start. Is the PC BSD drm code know to be
working on other cards?

Alex