On Son, 2002-11-24 at 23:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the past few months I've been noticing 2 problems with my A7M266-D > (dual athlon) computer (2 processors installed) with its ATI Radeon > 7500 gfx card: > > 1) Whenever I try to burn CD's at x20 it falls over very quickly > (about 12MBytes). Burning them at x8 at least gives me a chance of > backing things up but it wasn't perfect. > > 2) Whenever heavy disk IO (for example when Debian reads its package > database) is performed the whole of X hangs for tens of seconds, but > things like alsaplayer keep playing (and don't skip a beat).
I've only ever seen X fail to update the screen for several seconds when the system was swapping very badly. You don't mention how much RAM you have, but I assume that shouldn't be the problem? (well, I guess the disks not running with DMA might cause this, but then I'd expect that to be independent of the DRM) > Anyway, I finally got fed up of this as I was sure it didn't use > to be this bad - so I decided to investigate. > > I was currently using 2.4.20-rc2-ac3 + ALSA + CVS DRI. I went back to > the old installation of 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 and everything works fine (this > also had ALSA and CVS DRI from about May). I then updated ALSA & DRI > to current, and it was back to its old bad behaviour. So I tried > 2.4.20-rc3 with the radeon.o DRM module it comes with (+ the ALSA > drivers) and everything works fine (well, apart from DRI!). Stopping > X, unloading the DRM module, insert the latest CVS version and start up X > again and we are back to not being able to write CD's again. > > Any comments/ideas? What's your IRQ setup? Do you use any special configuration options? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
