On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 07:42:36AM -0600, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> >>Next, tuxracer ran, but the menus were basically unusable. Sounds like
> >>he hit a whack of software fallbacks - frame rate on menus must have
> >>been less than 1fps. He didn't have the patience to get into the game.
> >>
> >
> >this happens to me as well, but only if i restart the system after
> >installing the beta r200 driver. Re-running the install.sh script solves
> >the problem and the tuxracer menusystem is as fast as expected. I suspect
> >this is a problem of default dri kernel modules not being overwritten (?),
> >but the install reloads them properly. It's not a big issue though.
> 
> Interesting.  Jose, Alan, have you seen similar problems with the install 
> scripts for other hardware?  It sounds like the old radeon.o isn't getting 
> overwritten/overridden.  I guess the install script insmod's it explicitly?

No. The install script loads the module with `modprobe radeon`, i.e.,
without the .o, so it should pick the installed one.

What the install scripts additionally does is `modprobe agpgart`. Could
it be that agpgart was forgotten to be added to /etc/modules.conf?

José Fonseca


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