system locks when exiting X with radeon driver

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 11:47:26 PST 2011


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Joseph Mingrone <jrm at mingrone.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2011/2/2 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
>> Please elaborate a bit on what exactly 'the system locks' means though.
>> Does it not even respond to ping? Or if it does, can you log in via
>> ssh? ...
>>
>
> The system does not respond to a ping.  The configuration file I just
> used to test this was the output from
>
> # Xorg -configure
>
> and it's pasted below.
>
> Is this something I should submit a bug for?  I also wonder if I'm
> doing something wrong.  I've had to setup three older laptops in the
> past few days.  Another system had an another old ATI card and it
> would lock in a similar manner on Xorg startup and a second system
> (IBM R51 with an intel card) did the same.  All three systems seem
> stable with the vesa driver.

It's likely something freebsd specific.  I'm not sure how well the
freebsd drm works these days.  Does disabling the DRI help?
Option "DRI" "false"
in the device section of your xorg.conf

Alex

>
> Thanks,
>
> Joey
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>        ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>        Load  "extmod"
>        Load  "record"
>        Load  "dbe"
>        Load  "glx"
>        Load  "dri"
>        Load  "dri2"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>        Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>        Driver      "mouse"
>        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier   "Monitor0"
>        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>        ### Available Driver options are:-
>        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>        ### [arg]: arg optional
>        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "BusType"                   # [<str>]
>        #Option     "CPPIOMode"                 # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"             # <i>
>        #Option     "AGPMode"                   # <i>
>        #Option     "AGPFastWrite"              # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "AGPSize"                   # <i>
>        #Option     "GARTSize"                  # <i>
>        #Option     "RingSize"                  # <i>
>        #Option     "BufferSize"                # <i>
>        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"          # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"            # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"              # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "DMAForXv"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "FBTexPercent"              # <i>
>        #Option     "DepthBits"                 # <i>
>        #Option     "PCIAPERSize"               # <i>
>        #Option     "AccelDFS"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"                # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "CustomEDID"                # [<str>]
>        #Option     "DisplayPriority"           # [<str>]
>        #Option     "PanelSize"                 # [<str>]
>        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"          # <freq>
>        #Option     "ColorTiling"               # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
>        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"        # <i>
>        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"      # <i>
>        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"  # <i>
>        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"     # <i>
>        #Option     "TunerType"                 # <i>
>        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"     # <str>
>        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"     # <str>
>        #Option     "ScalerWidth"               # <i>
>        #Option     "RenderAccel"               # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"             # [<str>]
>        #Option     "ClockGating"               # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "VGAAccess"                 # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ReverseDDC"                # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"              # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "AccelMethod"               # <str>
>        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ConnectorTable"            # <str>
>        #Option     "DefaultConnectorTable"     # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "DefaultTMDSPLL"            # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "TVDACLoadDetect"           # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ForceTVOut"                # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "TVStandard"                # <str>
>        #Option     "IgnoreLidStatus"           # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "DefaultTVDACAdj"           # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "Int10"                     # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "EXAVSync"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ATOMTVOut"                 # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "R4xxATOM"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ForceLowPowerMode"         # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "DynamicPM"                 # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "NewPLL"                    # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ZaphodHeads"               # <str>
>        Identifier  "Card0"
>        Driver      "radeon"
>        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>        BoardName   "RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"
>        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>        Identifier "Screen0"
>        Device     "Card0"
>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     1
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     4
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     8
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     15
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     16
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     24
>        EndSubSection
> EndSection
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