On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I recently upraded from an SMP VIA PIII motherboard to a UP Intel > > I845 P4 motherboard. So far, things have gone pretty smoothly (I've > > needed to upgrade to 2.4.20 to support the new ICH4 IDE controller). > > > > There are a few remaining issues I'm facing, and one of them has > > to do with the DRI: it locks up this machine solid. I have a Radeon 8500 > > which worked beautifully on the VIA motherboard. I have, of course, > > compiled agpgart with support for the i845, and it loads fine: > > > > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M > > agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset > > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 > > > > This afternoon I rebuilt and installed the entire DRI to see if > > that would solve the problem. It did not. > > > > Basically, if I run 'startx', the machine completely locks up. > > It no longer responds to pings, and the terminal I have from another > > machine (through kermit) is completely unresponsive. In fact, if I start > > 'tail -f /var/log/XFree86.0.log' from the terminal before I startx, > > *nothing* is printed out before the computer locks up. > > > > Interestingly, though, the FireGL drivers from ATI run just fine > > on this new motherboard. > > AGP Fast writes are a problem with the 845 - try turning them off if you've > got them on. Similarly for other agp stuff.
How about PageFlipping? Is it safe to leave that enabled? I'm not positive, but I don't believe that's AGP related. Anyway, I'll give it a shot later this afternoon. Adam ------------------------------------------------------- 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
