On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 21:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Tim Smith wrote: > > > > Covering about 30 seconds prior to me hitting reset, so the card certainly > > seems to be getting rather stuck, because 'done=N' doesn't increment over > > that 30 seconds. > > Hmm.. I don't know if it is related, but you can get both a Radeon-7500 > and a Radeon-8500 to lock up the X server completely even without any DRI, > by just running the gatos server before you run the DRI server (without > rebooting in between). > > That lockup happens immediately on server startup for me, so clearly some > case isn't initialized or handled correctly. It might be easier to debug > than the DRI lockup, and it _might_ just be the same thing.
I think this was discussed in a sub-thread of the thread 'Bugfix for br0ken DMA on r128 andpossibly radeonDMA functions' in January-February. Quoting Vladimir Dergachev: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jens Owen wrote: > > > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > > > Also, I can make drm driver work nice with older 2d drivers - as > > > soon as someone will show me a way to tell the version of the 2d > > > driver that is accessing the drm driver. > > > > How about using a new set of IOCTL numbers for the new > > interface--then you'll know whether you have an old or new driver > > accessing it. > > Jens, it is not a new interface. It is simply a matter of moving AGP > and framebuffer apertures within cards internal address space. If it > is moved the buffers (texture, ring buffer, indirect, etc) need to > have their addresses adjusted. (that was the place where documentation > was wrong.. it named those fields as "offsets" but they are absolute > addresses). Once it is setup and the buffer addresses are ok > everything goes in as before. But if any component gets the wrong idea > and tells the card "go get a texture from the wrong place" it all > locks up. I guess the GATOS stuff should revert these changes when it gets unloaded... -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
