Xorg freezes the system with radeon driver on X1650 Pro

[Extreme Coder]

Hi,
My system is as follows:
Arch Linux with everything updated to latest
Mesa 7.1-1
Xorg Xserver at 1.5rc3
Libdrm at 2.3.1
xf86-video-ati 6.9.0
xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.1

When I run X -configure, it automatically makes a xorg.conf with radeon in it. When I test with this Xorg.conf, the system freezes, unresponsive, and I can't switch to any VTs. I can only reboot..

Here is the Xorg.conf it generates:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "radeon"
	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
	BoardName   "RV530LE [Radeon X1600/X1650 PRO]"
	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

What I'm using to post this is radeonhd, but I also can't get 3D running in it, it works fine, but DRI doesn't run correctly..
It says this in Xorg.0.log:

(WW) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI" is not used
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0

The Xorg.conf for RadeonHD is the same as in radeon, with the driver changed to radeonhd and I added Option "DRI".


Thanks in advance!

[bridgman]

I'm not 100% sure but I think your radeonhd driver is too old to run 3D. Best bet is probably picking up the latest from git.

I would try removing all of the Subsection "Display" stuff in the Screen section of your xorg.conf. Do you get any useful info in the log file when you run radeon ?

[Extreme Coder]

I'm not 100% sure but I think your radeonhd driver is too old to run 3D. Best bet is probably picking up the latest from git.

I would try removing all of the Subsection "Display" stuff in the Screen section of your xorg.conf. Do you get any useful info in the log file when you run radeon ?

Well, it's not a problem if I can't use radeonhd, as it can't use 2D and 3D together, and it's still not as usable as radeon.

I will try removing Display, although for some reason I doubt it will work.
i can't get any log file from running radeon, the PC hangs, and when I reboot, I don't find a log file..

Someone on IRC suggested that my libdrm is too old and I should use from GIT, but mesa website states that libdrm 2.3 is enough for mesa 7.1..

[bridgman]

Well, it's not a problem if I can't use radeonhd, as it can't use 2D and 3D together,

That's all fixed now. Alex updated the acceleration code in radeonhd so it now has full EXA render, Textured Video, and 2D/3D at the same time.

The main thing missing now is rotation.

I think 6.9.0 radeon included 780 support but I'm not 100% sure. I would try latest radeonhd as the next step.

[Extreme Coder]

That's all fixed now. Alex updated the acceleration code in radeonhd so it now has full EXA render, Textured Video, and 2D/3D at the same time.

The main thing missing now is rotation.

I think 6.9.0 radeon included 780 support but I'm not 100% sure. I would try latest radeonhd as the next step.

Sounds like the featureset for radeon driver
I will try that right now..

[Extreme Coder]

Sounds like the featureset for radeon driver
I will try that right now..

Oh btw, is there a guide out there on how to compile radeonhd?

[bridgman]

http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

It worked for me, so it must be pretty thorough

[neuron]

I've seen this when using an out of date x11-drm that doesn't support your card, after hang xorg.conf shows dri can't be found, but the system hardlocks.

[Extreme Coder]

I've seen this when using an out of date x11-drm that doesn't support your card, after hang xorg.conf shows dri can't be found, but the system hardlocks.

But I compiled libdrm from git.
I've yet to compile radeonhd, I will try now though.

[neuron]

Well have you checked Xorg.0.log after it freezes?