My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-10 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
Hello, just sending this to describe my experience so far with the open-source r300 drivers. My card is a Radeon 9600Pro with 256 mb ram by Gecube. After installing everything following this tutorial : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745-highlight-r300.html I was able to get inside X with

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-10 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote: Hello, just sending this to describe my experience so far with the open-source r300 drivers. My card is a Radeon 9600Pro with 256 mb ram by Gecube. After installing everything following this tutorial : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745-highlight-r300.h

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-10 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > This looks like pixmap damage. Are you using exa (not obvious from this > forum thread)? If not, does the option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" help? Thanks alot. That did the trick. Just one question. Is there a way of seeing how mu

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-11 Thread khaqq
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:12:04 -0300 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > This looks like pixmap damage. Are you using exa (not obvious from this > > forum thread)? If not, does the option "XaaNoOffscreenPixma

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-11 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:00:03PM +0200, khaqq wrote: > > This should be in your Xorg.0.log : > > # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep VideoRAM > (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte (128 bit DDR SDRAM) My card has 256 RAM . I tried to override it, but (II) RADEON(0): VideoRAM override ignored, t

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-11 Thread pedro.lixo
Your Xorg version, is patched with a known patch(at least by me, it's from Mike A. Harris). Are you using gentoo!? Gentoo has this patch, probably also Red Hat and Fedora Core. With that patch, you cannot override. In gentoo just go to xorg-x11--patches-.tar.bz2 , and remove the patch "1214_

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pedro.lixo wrote: | Your Xorg version, is patched with a known patch(at least by me, it's from Mike A. Harris). Are you using gentoo!? | | Gentoo has this patch, probably also Red Hat and Fedora Core. | | With that patch, you cannot override. In gento

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:59 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > pedro.lixo wrote: > | Your Xorg version, is patched with a known patch(at least by me, it's > from Mike A. Harris). Are you using gentoo!? > | > | Gentoo has this patch, probably also Re

RE: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-12 Thread pedro.lixo
>It's not. The driver limits it to 128 MB because the CPU can't access >more than that. Thanks for the information! By the way, if i do the override that won't do nothing, in terms of amount of memory visible to GPU, right? --- This SF.Net e

RE: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:01 +0100, pedro.lixo wrote: > > By the way, if i do the override that won't do nothing, in terms of > amount of memory visible to GPU, right? No, it will only affect what the driver thinks, and if that doesn't correspond with what's actually there and/or the hardware can

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-12 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:01 +0100, pedro.lixo wrote: By the way, if i do the override that won't do nothing, in terms of amount of memory visible to GPU, right? No, it will only affect what the driver thinks, and if that doesn't correspond with what's actually there and/

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:58 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:01 +0100, pedro.lixo wrote: > > > >>By the way, if i do the override that won't do nothing, in terms of > >>amount of memory visible to GPU, right? > > > > No, it will only affect wh

Re: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thursday 13 October 2005 07:51, Michel Dänzer wrote: > There's no question that the override is useful for developers, the > question is whether it isn't more harm- than useful for users. I've often thought it'd be nice to have the VideoRAM option in the config file be clamped to the max(user

RE: RE: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-11 Thread pedro.lixo
-Mensagem original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] em nome de Luis Felipe Strano Moraes Enviada: ter 11-10-2005 7:12 Para: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Assunto: Re: My experience with the r300 driver On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > This looks l

Re: RE: My experience with the r300 driver

2005-10-11 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:58:23AM +0100, pedro.lixo wrote: > Use this > cat /proc/mtrr > In this case: you'll have 3 lines > First - Size of system memory > Second - Size of Bios AGP Aperture > Third - Size of Graphic card Memory > > or > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep VideoRAM The first way gave