Re: [Dri-devel] radeon mmio area size

2002-07-16 Thread Al Tobey
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 15:58, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Can someone out there check this quickly? > > In radeon.h in the 2d driver, the size of the radeon mmio area is defined as > 0x8 - however, on my r200 at least, /proc/pci shows the area as being > 1/8th that size: > >Bus 1, device

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon scratch register writeback patch

2002-07-03 Thread Al Tobey
: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY The VE is the exact same as the 7000. I might need to locate a machine with a supported agp gart, though... I'll test it sometime this week (probably tomorrow). -Al Tobey > -

[Dri-devel] SiS Specifications

2002-06-27 Thread Al Tobey
Might want to post this on the site somewhere - appears that utah-glx has posted specs for some SiS chipsets (300 & 630). http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/utah-glx/300ds03.pdf?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/utah-glx/630ds10a.pdf?download -Al

RE: [Dri-devel] Capturing debugging info without networking

2002-06-26 Thread Al Tobey
ils. Just a thought, though. -Al Tobey On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 15:22, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > Good boys! Can anyone invent the way to do the same thing with gdb? So > on X crash one could get backtrace without remote debugging... > &g

[Dri-devel] Capturing debugging info without networking

2002-06-25 Thread Al Tobey
ts. Lemme know what you think. I take no responsibility for the meltdown of your system ;) -Al Tobey This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to

Re: [Dri-devel] tuxkart, and bug reports..

2002-06-24 Thread Al Tobey
oot jail for apache+MySQL+bugzilla may be another solution. -Al Tobey On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 12:08, Ian Romanick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:42:06PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > I'm just in general not a big fan of the bug tracker. I've got a bunch of > > bugs

Re: [Dri-devel] TCL lockups with Tribes 2

2002-06-24 Thread Al Tobey
via secure shell. A third option is to run out and buy a null-modem cable and set up a console on the serial port. The windows machine can use "Hyperterm" to connect to the Linux box. -Al Tobey On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 07:42, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Hi all. > I've been testing th

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: agpgart, nFORCE (Al Tobey)

2002-06-24 Thread Al Tobey
appens. If it fails completely, I always have my laptop (Radeon Mobility) to play games on while AC & co get things running. -Al Tobey On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 14:51, Smitty wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:15:35 +0200 > Dieter Nützel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 01

Re: [Dri-devel] The Weather Channel Funding Radeon 8500 Support

2002-06-09 Thread Al Tobey
I could give a few guesses as to why WC has an interest in 8500 support - I spent a couple years with a meteorologist in college: * meteorological calculations use _A LOT_ of CPU power - Linux probably saves them gobs of money e.g. beowuf, mosix, chromium * Linux is becoming more popular in mete

Re: [Dri-devel] texture compression

2002-06-07 Thread Al Tobey
Ok. I didn't understand the format that the card was expecting. A large misunderstanding on my part. Thank you for clearing that up. -Al On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 14:07, Ian Romanick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:31:59PM -0400, Al Tobey wrote: > > So, I'm guessing t

Re: [Dri-devel] texture compression

2002-06-07 Thread Al Tobey
is lowered bandwidth usage at the cost of lower quality textures. Of course, people without enough memory to chew through this stuff quickly would not want this turned on. -Al On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:42, Ian Romanick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:42:22AM -0400, Al Tobey wrote: > >

[Dri-devel] texture compression

2002-06-07 Thread Al Tobey
equire a ton of code to get working (use libjpeg). I don't forsee a big problem performance wise if the textures are mangled during the loading stage, but I'm still learning ... I'll poke around in Mesa for myself this weeken

[Dri-devel] Card swap?

2002-06-04 Thread Al Tobey
Anybody want to swap me a voodoo[2-5] for an ATI Mach64 AGP? I want to fart around with the voodoo driver for learning experience and could use one to test with. AGP or PCI is fine. -Al Tobey This email and any files

Re: [Dri-devel] eR: Radeon 7000/Dual PIII 1Ghz Lockup

2002-05-29 Thread Al Tobey
the correct version, and they seem to be. Also, I did 'mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.old' and did another 'make install' of the tree. This didn't change anything, either. -Al On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 03:38, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Michael wrote: > &

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon Mobility, Unreal Tournament

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
tomorrow at work to try to track it down. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious before starting down that path. HP OmniBook 6100 Intel Pentium III Mobile 1133Mhz /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg >dmesg.txt are attached. -Al On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 21:59, Linus Torval

[Dri-devel] Radeon Mobility, Unreal Tournament

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
A fun little weirdness, since I'm bored tonight. If I run ut on my laptop, the intro and any games run 2-5times faster than they should. For instance, the intro plays through it's entirety in less than half the time it usually takes, while the voice continues at a normal rate. When joining a LA

Re: [Dri-devel] eR: Radeon 7000/Dual PIII 1Ghz Lockup

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
Same thing with a UP kernel ... Yes, the kernel module was built fresh from the CVS tree. Should this not be happening? Does it have something to do with the 7000/VE not having a TCL unit? Am I an idiot for trying to use the TCL driver on a non-TCL card? -Al On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 19:18, Al

Re: [Dri-devel] SiS Xabre

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
nk C. Earl wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 06:34 pm, Al Tobey wrote: > > > Since it seems to be my turn to spam the list... > > Has anybody talked to SiS about this beastie (Xabre) yet? It's brand > > new and I can't even find a card for sale, but there are a few r

[Dri-devel] SiS Xabre

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
Since it seems to be my turn to spam the list... Has anybody talked to SiS about this beastie (Xabre) yet? It's brand new and I can't even find a card for sale, but there are a few reviews floating about the net. Might be nice to get a decent card supported in DRI before it hits EOL ;) -Al

[Dri-devel] eR: Radeon 7000/Dual PIII 1Ghz Lockup

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
Err ... I meant to say X locks up ... I can still ssh in from my laptop (like to do the strace). The first X process lets me move the mouse, but the top 1/8th of the screen is snow crashed while the rest looks like a normal X pattern. Upon killing & letting X restart, the mouse movement goes awa

[Dri-devel] Radeon 7000/Dual PIII 1Ghz Lockup

2002-05-28 Thread Al Tobey
Hello, Just pulled & built the tcl branch fresh this morning and it locks my SMP machine up hard when X starts, but before any applications get a chance to. Log & config is attached. The following text is output from strace -fp `ps -ef |awk '/[X] :0/{print $2}'` --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 Testing

2002-05-25 Thread Al Tobey
> I think that I'll remove from the FAQ the direct links for the specs > requesting forms of ATI and others vendors - its existence can give the > impression >that they are easily obtainable - which is not true. As you > said, if we pest too >much we are killing the golden egg chicken and we >

Re: [Dri-devel] Cards & Specs

2002-05-25 Thread Al Tobey
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 09:06, Jacek Popławski wrote: > So: If ATI want to sell more 8500 - it should help fix 3dfx driver. What I was saying is if you want specs for the 8500 to develop the driver for it, you need to have a track record. Fixing the 3dfx driver is a good way to show that you have

Re: [Dri-devel] Cards & Specs

2002-05-24 Thread Al Tobey
n Creative/3DLabs thinks about releasing their new chip this fall. -Al Tobey On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:24, Mike Westall wrote: > Once upon a time 3DLabs gave us the specs > for Glint TX, Permedia 2, and Permedia 3 > cards. We did Utah - like accelerated 3D drivers > for X 3.3.6 for the G

Re: [Dri-devel] Cards & Specs

2002-05-24 Thread Al Tobey
4 at 15:36, José Fonseca wrote: > On 2002.05.24 19:49 Al Tobey wrote: > > Here's a stupid question: > > Are there any cards on the market, which don't already have DRI > > drivers, that have publicly available specs? I'll do some searching - a > > card

[Dri-devel] Cards & Specs

2002-05-24 Thread Al Tobey
Here's a stupid question: Are there any cards on the market, which don't already have DRI drivers, that have publicly available specs? I'll do some searching - a card or two in this category would make a great training ground for some new develop

[Dri-devel] Microsoft's solution to 2d/3d mode switching

2002-05-21 Thread Al Tobey
I read some of the stuff about "Longhorn" (it's cheese!) - looks like M$ wants to do make all 2d operations into texture operations in 3d mode. No more 2d/3d mode switching issues. http://www.tomshardware.com/business/02q2/020417/winhec11-05.html My thought is that X could do this without distur