Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:36:40PM -0700, Jeff Hartmann wrote:
> 
>>> I haven't, I'll comment the drm/dri modules out and see how that works.
>>> Just to be on the safe side, I will also make sure radeon/agpgart are not
>>> loaded in the kernel.  It'll probably take a day or so to know if that
>>> works, but I suspect I'll know in a couple hours if it doesn't.
>>> 
>> Are you using the radeon module from the kernel?  If you are this could 
>> possibly be a source of the problems.  If you are using DRI CVS use the 
>> kernel modules from the CVS tree.  The kernel modules that come with the 
>> kernel will only work properly with a release version of XFree86.  Its 
>> very likely that we have changed things in the DRI CVS tree that require 
>> kernel module changes.
> 
> 
> I had the radeon module from the kernel, but was told that should not
> affect 2D.  (Also was told agpgart wouldn't affect it, but seems that's
> not quite true..)
> 
> CVS drm has its up()'s and down()'s (pun intended) still and that needs to
> change with more recent kernels.  I just haven't had much time to do
> anything with it yet.

Here is my recommendation:
use 2.4.2 (don't use a pre patch unless you want to take all 
respondsibility for breakage.)
use radeon.o kernel module from the CVS tree.
Everything should work a HELL of alot better.

-Jeff


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