Have you tried loading the radeon kernel module from /boot/loader.conf? Or even from the console, before starting X?
Adam On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 00:08 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > My X behaves really weird lately [1,2], > so I went back to basics. Can somebody > please comment on whether what I'm doing > seems correct. Thanks > > HP Compaq 6715s laptop > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #9 r238259M amd64 > > vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x030000 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002 > rev=0x00 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' > device = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]' > class = display > subclass = VGA > > which, according to radeon(4x), is > supported by radeon driver. > > I've got in the kernel, amongst other things,: > > device agp > device drm > device radeondrm > device vga > > I then see in dmesg: > > $ dmesg | grep vga > vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem > 0xc0100000-0xc80fffff,0 > xd0200000-0xd020ffff,0xd0300000-0xd03fffff irq 19 at device 5.0 on pci1 > vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 > $ dmesg | grep -i agp > $ dmesg | grep -i radeon > > Is this expected that there's nothing > related to either agp on radeon in dmesg? > > Anyway, if I do X auto-configure, i.e. > X -configure, I get in the resulting > xorg.conf.new: > > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "radeon" > VendorName "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI" > BoardName "RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]" > BusID "PCI:1:5:0" > > Is that correct? > > I then see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri! 2: No such file or > directory > Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2: No such file or > dire > ctory > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) > Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2: No such file or > dire > ctory > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) > drmOpenDevice: Open failed > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM > [dri] Disabling DRI. > > I guess this is not good, right? > > Please advise > > [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-June/012100.html > [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-July/035171.html > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
