--- Michel D�nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 21:26, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > I was looking through the the databooks regarding PCI gart and I
> > noticed that r128, radeon, and r200 all do PCI gart the same way.
> that
> > said, I also noticed that PCI GART is limited to 4 MB of system
> memory
> > when used with a PCI card and 32 MB when used with an AGP card.
>
> Where did you see that?
It's in the r128 DDK software development guide, page 2-23.
>
> > I haven't yet looked at the gart code in the radeon driver, but
> perhaps
> > it is trying to use more than 4 MB of system memory
>
> The default is 8 MB for both AGP and PCI GART.
>
> > and that is causing the slow down.
>
> Perhaps, but I'd rather expect different symptoms, and it used to
> work
> fine for me on older chips. Easy enough to find out though:
>
> Option "AGPSize" "4"
Yeah, it's just a guess. I'm not familiar with the code, nor do I have
a PCI card to test with.
>
> ("GARTSize" is an alias in newer radeon drivers)
>
> > it may also explain why PCI gart seems to "work" on AGP cards and
> older
> > radeons, but not on newer PCI ones.
>
> >From what I remember, mostly AGP cards used to be problematic
> traditionally, and only on x86. PCI cards being problematic is a
> recent
> trend.
Yeah. As I recall it seems like mostly r200 PCI cards.
Alex
>
>
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> developer
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