Bug 85470

Summary: 82845GV video mode switching with Xorg
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Sebastien Bourdeauducq <sebastien.b>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-x11 (Nobody) <x11>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Sebastien Bourdeauducq 2005-08-30 10:50:22 UTC 
When Xorg is run on my laptop, the screen goes dark for a long time. Sometimes, initialization succeeds and I have the classical pattern on the screen - but then, the server is very unstable and prone to segfaults ; sometimes it just freezes or segfaults. Switching consoles also takes a long time (~ 10s) with the screen going dark.
Strangely, the server output, even in verbose mode, doesn't show any error message.
I don't have this problem with XFree86.

How-To-Repeat: Install and run Xorg from FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 ISOs on a machine with a 82845GV integrated video chipset.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-08-31 01:59:24 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->freebsd-x11

Over to maintainers of x11-servers/xorg.
Comment 2 Eric Anholt 2005-10-16 10:20:11 UTC 
Does the problem continue if you try xorg-server-snap as a replacement
for xorg-server?  If it does, I'll see if I see anything relevant
post-6.8.99.16 to merge.

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Eric Anholt                                     eta@lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt@FreeBSD.org
Comment 3 sebastien.bourdeauducq 2005-11-11 18:37:23 UTC 
> Does the problem continue if you try xorg-server-snap as a replacement
> for xorg-server?

No, it doesn't ! xorg-server-snap fixed it :)
Comment 4 Eric Anholt freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-11-30 07:48:29 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I couldn't easily identify the commit responsible for fixing this, and the 
i810 driver has undergone enough change between 6.8 and HEAD that I think 
just saying "use xorg-server-snap if you experience this" until the next 
stable release is reasonable.  Hopefully we'll get xorg modular working and 
then we'll be able to sanely update drivers on a regular basis.