Fabrice, the FireGL driver does not enable bus mastering on the graphics card, but this is essential. So you have to do before starting the Xserver with setpci by setting bit 2 of the command register-
E.g. as root: setpci -s 1:0.0 command 0183 setpci -s 1:0.0 4.L=0187 Johannes -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Fabrice Bellet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 18:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [Xpert]Radeon 8500 kernel module On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:39:36AM -0600, Mark Lane wrote: > At 07:02 AM 6/10/02, you wrote: > > >I suppose every knows this, if so please > >ignore. > > > >I have a dual Athlon 1600+MP. I tried the > >2.5.21 kernel enabled with the radeon module. > >My machine goes completely dead when I start X. > > > >I have a Radeon 8500. > > Check out ATI drivers for the FireGL 8800. Apparently they work though are > somewhat buggy. I tested it. This driver does not work for me (Tyan Thunder dual Athlon MB/Radeon 8500). The Xserver is incredibly slow in both 2D/3D when DRM is enabled. It looks like every framebuffer area copies fail in this mode. It sounds like an AGP problem. ATI includes a customized agpgart driver, which fails to init. The regular agpgart module is then loaded, but its use counter remains at zero. Booting with mem=nopentium doesn't help. So I'll personnaly wait for the open source DRI driver for this board :-) -- fabrice _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
