On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:05:01PM +1000, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> > Can anyone think of a reason why APIC may or may not affect stability of
> > DRI on some/any AGP cards? APIC is a SMPism, but several new boards offer
> > it even for uniprocessor systems and I've always used it when available.
> >
> > I'm wondering if this could possibly have anything to do with my Radeon
> > and KT7A problems. The board works fine with other AGP cards (TNT2 and
> > Voodoo3 (which almost doesn't count) tested) and the Radeon works in other
> > boards (VIA/Intel, Intel/Intel) plus has been reported to work with other
> > KT133A based systems - I don't know if the person in question has a KT7A
> > or not.
>
> I just bought a shiny new system with an ASUS A7V133 (KT133A chipset),
> and will let you know how it fares with my Radeon as soon as it arrives.
>
> As for the APIC stuff, I usually enable it too. Try disabling it, and
> compiling your kernel for UP (I don't know if you're running an SMP
> kernel or not).
I'll give it a shot later today after I've had some sleep. I can't wait
to have this thing actually running here, I was able to get 70fps out of
Q3A without even really trying. That's good, the card's fast enough to
still work with the debugging code that made this TNT2 beg for mercy
earlier. I'm impressed with the performance and very sorry I ever doubted
the Radeon driver. =)
Now if we can get at least similar performance on the Duron, all will be
right with the (3D-rendered) world. I even had the thing hauling with
AGP 4x - very nice.
BTW, what's up with Q3A's cinematics? Someone said last week that they're
seeing the same problem I am with them - or rather that they're not seeing
them at all. Is this local to the Radeon or to DRI in general? It's
kinda odd and I'm not sure why it's doing that.
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Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free software developer
<BenC> CosmicRay: you complete me
<BenC> err...
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* BenC goes back to coding
* elmo looks at benc
<elmo> something we should know about you and cosmicray, Ben? :)
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