freebsd stable - Feb 2011 - ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

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On Fri, February 11, 2011 11:12 am, Ted Faber wrote:
> For the last couple weeks (maybe more) I've been having an intermittent
> problem on my Thinkpad T42 where exiting X causes my screen to lock up and
the
> system seems to stop doing anything.  Lately it's happening about every
3rd
> time.
>
> The usual failure mode is that I select shutdown from the gnome menu and
> it logs out with the console showing (text mode), but non responsive. The
disk
> LED lights intermittently, as can the LAN LED (though sometimes
> it comes on solid).  Sometimes it sort of shakes itself awake after a
minute or
> so, but often the shutdown doesn't complete and I have to force a power
cycle
> and fsck everything.
>
> I don't get anything useful in /var/log/messages
>
>
> I run a recent -STABLE
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD praxis.lunabase.org 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #62: Sun
Feb
> 6 18:02:17 PST 2011 root@praxis.lunabase.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
i386
>
>
> I've attached a verbose boot dmesg and my xorg.conf, and the
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log from a login.
>
>
> Any help would be great.
I noticed a potential issue in the output of your attached Xorg.conf.
But as I don't have an immediate solution for that, I /will/ offer you some
advice based on my experiences with recent versions of Xorg(1) on nVidia based
cards. All the docs will advise the following two entries in your rc.cconf(5):

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"

However, _unless_ I use the following, I will _always_ run into some sort of
problem;

hald_enable="NO"
dbus_enable="YES"

I have no idea what's going on with hald(8), but frankly, it appears
nothing.
Research on forums related to issues on nVidia & ATI video cards have many
threads that ultimately point at issues using hald(8).

Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I disable hald(8), I have nearly
no (video related) issues. This is both on x86 && amd64 systems.

HTH

--Chris
>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
> For the last couple weeks (maybe more) I've been having an intermittent
> problem on my Thinkpad T42 where exiting X causes my screen to lock up
> and the system seems to stop doing anything.  Lately it's happening
> about every 3rd time.
My T42 is months out of date and needs updating, but I haven't seen that 
issue before.  Have you made any changes to xorg-related stuff lately? 
There are some things in your xorg.conf Device section that might be 
questionable, but if it was working before...

Updated the T42 tonight, which has the same video.  -STABLE as of today, 
all ports updated as of today, and it seems fine.  At least no lock up 
on restarting X or shutting down.  Your xorg.conf had some interesting 
things, including XAA acceleration, which I didn't notice before. 
Here's the one from this machine, comments stripped.  Composite enabled 
does not provide composite, but otherwise no problems noticed:

Section "ServerLayout"
 	Identifier   "Manually Configured"
 	Screen       0  "Screen0" 0 0
 	Option       "DontZap" "Off"
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/"
 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 	Group 0
 	Mode  0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
 	Option       "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 	Identifier  "Card0"
 	Driver      "radeon"
 	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
 	BoardName   "Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]"
 	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
 	Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
 	Option      "EXAVSync" "On"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 	Identifier "Screen0"
 	Device     "Card0"
 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
 	SubSection "Display"
 		Virtual 1024 768
 		Modes "1024x768"
 	EndSubSection
EndSection

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> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com>
wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, February 16, 2011 1:34 am, Tom Evans wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris H
<chris#@1command.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, the box I'm writing this message from is running a
>>>> G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] + 3Gb videoram, while not the
"latest and greatest", it
>>>> isn't really "legacy" either. I was /sure/
it'd be a "snap" to setup, but
while
>>>> "functional", it isn't the optimal experience I
had hoped for.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess that's the price one pays for choosing a
"closed source" piece of
>>>> hardware. :(
>>>>
>>>> --Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've used this card for 2 years with FreeBSD + hald, never had
the
>>> slightest issues, truly plug and play.
>>>
>>> nvidia0: <GeForce 8400 GS> on vgapci0
>>> nvidia-driver-256.53 NVidia graphics card binary drivers
>> That's great news. I don't suppose you'd be willing to
share your
>> setup with me (xorg.conf, and anything else you think might help).
I'd
>> really love to get the most out of this card, but always felt a bit
>> deprived.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
>> Sure, its attached. I should probably note that this isn't used as
a
>> 'PC', its hooked up to my TV, without a mouse or keyboard, and
plays
>> movies via mplayer (with vdpau acceleration). I also use a Geforce
>> 7200 GS in my desktop machine (with keyboard + mouse!), for 3 years
>> with no problems (no vdpau with that mind).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Tom
Well, I just wanted to report back that after comparing your settings in
Xorg.conf(5) to my own, that /really/ the only significant difference was
the omission of the following:

InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	"AllowEmptyInput"	"false"
	Option	"AutoAddDevices"	"true"
	Option	"AutoEnableDevices" "true"
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 8"
EndSection

So I simply comment all of those lines from my own xorg.conf(5) file,
changed the rc.conf(5) line:
hald_enable="NO"
to
hald_enable="YES"

rebooted > startx && all was well.

Thanks for taking the time to share your conf file Tom,
now I can live harmoniously with hald(8) :)

--Chris

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