Re: loading drm crashes system
Robert Huff <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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Hello: > > Niclas Zeising asks: > > > When did it stop working? > > > > September ... I _think_. > > Yeah, that sounds about right. > > There are known issues with Radeon cards, they were quite well > supported a year ago, then something got broken. I've promised to > bisect this and find the cause, but there were several syscall-related > changes in -CURRENT though the course of the last year, so bisecting > just the kernel is not enough (machine won't get to login prompt if > the userland does not match), which cripples the process. > > I still intend to take this quest, just not sure when. :( Expanding on "September ... I think": Try September 26 as a reference date. Sometime close to then I a) updated world+kernel to the latest version of current, so also b) updated to the latest drm-current-kmod and gpu-firmware. Question: is there a way for the less sophisticated user <waves> to tell whether the cause is in the drm knod or the firmware kmod? Hope this helps, Robert Huff -- Hello ... my name is SARS-CoV-2. You are not wearing a mask? Prepare to die! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"