On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:07:44PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > > I have a 32 meg DDR radeon on an athlon slot A box. I have got DRI-CVS to
> > > install and all the modules are loaded corectaly, but when I startx i get
> > > a white screen with an outline of console and a block as the curser.
> >
> > Just a wild-ass suggestion (since it seems to work for me for 2D at
> > least), try getting CVS from 22 March 2001.. Do this with:
> >
> > cvs up -D '22 March 2001'
> >
> > in your top-level directory (xc) and rebuild. It SEEMS to have given me
> > workable 2D. My problem with more recent CVS is that the screen will
> > blank and the box will lock up tight. It does that frequently, so
> > somebody borked it.
>
> I spoke too soon, it would seem. 22 March 2001 also dies, it just managed
> to remain functional overnight. It crashed, hard, as did later. It took
> the whole box down in the process.
>
> Thankfully this box uses reiserfs. It was converted immedately after I
> ended up with a corrupt filesystem one of the last times X did this to
> me.. Anyone reading this and considering a Radeon, steer clear for the
> time being at least.
>
> Radeon support is not even pre-alpha quality right now IMO. =(
Radeon support works fine for me. Could be your/my specific
configuration. Overall the quality of the code in XFree86 and the DRI
projects is extremely high. I wouldn't go around calling any of it
"pre-alpha" unless it's on a development branch.
-jwb
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