I'm sending this to debian-user as well, hoping to draw out some more helpful comments.
On 03 Dec 2002 12:43:10 -0500 "Timothy J. Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I am currently using. Maybe it will you. > > 1. Output from lspci: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF Same output here: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF > 2. The pertinent section from XF86Config: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "r128" > VendorName "ATI" > BoardName "Rage 128 Pro TF" > Option "AGPMode" "4" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection The only meaningful difference is the AGPMode option. Tried it, same result (X starts with acceleration, the gears screensaver works for a random amount of time ranging from a few seconds to 1 hour or so, then X crashes, only way out is Magic SysReq sync+umount+boot). > 3. xfree86 version: 4.2.1-4 from Debian unstable Mine is -3 from testing, perhaps there've been improvements but I doubt it. > 4. using kernel-package, roll my own kernel starting from the Debian > kernel source version: 2.4.19_2.4.19-5 I'm at 2.4.20 as of this morning. Source came from kernel.org, so no Debian patches. But I don't think that should make all that much difference. > 5. For drm kernel modules and dri packages, in sources.list put this: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./ > > 6. apt-get install the 4 packages: > > drm-trunk-module-src > xlibmesa-dev-dri-trunk > xlibmesa3-dri-trunk > xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk > > Some remarks: > I have been successfully using the version 2002.10.02-2 of > xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, the newer versions seem to have problems. > Roll the drm modules using kernel-package. Took me a while to figure out beforehand what steps would be required to use these packages without compromising my system, but I'm glad I did, because: a) the new xserver aborted very early during startup with a segfault, probably because it was compiled in another linux version (2.4.19) and for another architecture (686, mine is K6). Rolling back the changes would have been a dependency nightmare if I hadn't thought of a back-out plan in advance. b) I then tried to leave the new kernel modules obtained from compiling and installing drm-trunk-module-src, in the hope they might work out better, but the result was even worse (random patches of colour painted all over the screen while running glxgears). Fortunately, all I had to do was to copy back the standard kernel modules I had backed up before installing the new ones, and run update-modules. So, back to where I started. Damned card. Worked perfectly under Windows, so it's not a hardware problem. Seems the only thing to do is wait for X 5.x :) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
