Re: [Dri-users] Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon x86 PCI [Was: help selecting a graphics card, and some general questions]
Third'ed belatedly... one of my friends just got an A7N266-VM and has a Sapphire Radeon 7500, so without this code being activated (by recompile) he can't use DRI... thankfully we can do that, but it'd be nice to have it in XFree 4.3.0. - Chad On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-15] José Fonseca wrote: I'll second Keith Gross here: we should enable PCI support even if there are situations were it can cause problems, as the situations can be avoided with proper configuration and more people could enjoy DRI. After all, we strive to add functionality to the drivers, not to hide it from users, and it's not the case here in my POV. José Fonseca On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:30:44PM +, Keith Gross wrote: Might it not be possible to eliminate all the PCIGART_ENABLED stuff and for the time being control this in the XF86Config. If you have a PCI card you use ForcePCIMode true. If you have a AGP card you use either ForcePCIMode false or just say nothing and the driver assumes AGP. This way the PCI GART gets more testing and a lot of people like me don't spend many frustating hours figuring out that PCI Radeons are not supported by default and than having to build their own to get it working. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com --- 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 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
Re: [Dri-users] Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon x86 PCI [Was: help selecting a graphics card, and some general questions]
Might it not be possible to eliminate all the PCIGART_ENABLED stuff and for the time being control this in the XF86Config. If you have a PCI card you use ForcePCIMode true. If you have a AGP card you use either ForcePCIMode false or just say nothing and the driver assumes AGP. This way the PCI GART gets more testing and a lot of people like me don't spend many frustating hours figuring out that PCI Radeons are not supported by default and than having to build their own to get it working. On Wednesday 04 December 2002 03:23 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mit, 2002-12-04 at 15:27, José Fonseca wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mit, 2002-12-04 at 12:52, Keith Whitwell wrote: José Fonseca wrote: Is there any reason no to enable x86 PCI support on Radeon? I think nobody's been able to make it work stably. I don't think PCI cards work less stably than AGP cards per se, the main concern is AGP cards falling back to PCI GART when agpgart isn't available for some reason. I wonder if there's a way to determine the slot type from the 2D driver? If that's the reason then the solution couldn't be simpler. See the patch attached. Unfortunately, all Radeons are actually AGP chips, so IsPCI is never set automatically, owners of PCI cards would have to use Option ForcePCIMode. My idea was to determine the type of GART to use from the type of slot the card is connected to. Besides, I'd remove all the PCIGART_ENABLED ugliness while we're at it. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
