Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling%kev009.com@localhost> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> wrote: > > Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling%kev009.com@localhost> wrote: > > > I get the following with 10.1 or NetBSD 11.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Thu > > > Jan 8 10:53:08 UTC 2026 > > > when starting X: > > > > > > [ 104.512784] radeon0: autoconfiguration error: error: ring 0 > > > stalled for more than 10000msec > > > [ 104.512784] radeon0: warn: GPU lockup (current fence id > > > 0x0000000000000003 last fence id 0x0000000000000006 on ring 0) > > > > > I'm able to get a working session with this file added to > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf: > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Radeon" > > Driver "modesetting" > > Option "AccelMethod" "none" > > EndSection > > > > With the modesetting default of AccelMethod "glamor", X will not start with: > > glamor requires at least 128 instructions (64 reported) > > > > So it seems the older EXA radeon might be preferable, but something is > > going wrong in the kernel. Has anyone looked into this drm stuff > > recently? > > What happens if you set AccelMethod to EXA in your 20-radeon.conf file? > As far as I can tell only glamor is supported for modesetting. If > setting EXA here, X does start but llvmpipe is still somewhat used and > things like glxinfo segfault. Have you tried using the old radeon driver with EXA? We build two versions of this, they get built as radeon_drv.* and radeon_drv_old.* and live in the /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers directory. To use the old one, rename radeon_drv.* to radeon_drv_new.* and radeon_drv_old.* to radeon_drv.*.