Hello, After realizing that the R200 driver bundled with xorg 6.8 wasn't stable, I installed the CVS of DRI (as of 2 hours ago). The problem *was* : random lockups / freezes when playing UT (original one) or Q3A (latest patch) ; those lockups happen within 30 seconds of starting any of these games. Using driconf and : * disabling entirely TCL (software) * setting frame throttling to Usleeps * VSync to OFF * Number of texture units to 2 actually helps alleviate the problem (I get lockups every 10 minutes or so).
I then applied Mr Scheidegger 's patch at : https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=814 eventhough the problem was thought to be corrected in current CVS. Lo and behold, I know could play for about 10 minutes with both "Bypass MESA's pipeline with state-based code generation" and "Software interrupts" enabled ; better visuals, and faster. That said, UT locked up after 12 minutes (DM-Morpheus). I still haven't been able to pinpoint a common denominator for the crashes. It seems to me that the patch from Mr Scheidegger is still needed, because I already have dbg = 0x6; in r200_texstate.c ; but that's not enough, I fear :/ The whole PC is known to be reliable, it's able to do 4 hours of 3DMark 2001SE benchmark-looping in 1280x1024x32 mode, so I don't think there is a hardware problem. relevant Hardware specs : PIII/933 coppermine asus tusl2-c / i815ep agp4x 2x256MB PC133 Crucial, tested recently for defects with memtest ATI FireGL 8800/128MB relevant software specs : linux kernel 2.6.9 (vanilla) quite up-to-date gentoo system with xorg-6.8.0-r1 I'll test anything you want me to. Thank you for the good work. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
