On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:02 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:38 -0500, Bridgman, John wrote:
> > There might be a clue in the dmesg output.
> >
> > This is looking less like a mesa dev issue - is there a better list for
> > this ?
>
> I'll move it over to the dri-dev mailing
age-
> > From: Alex Buell [mailto:alex.bu...@munted.org.uk]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:29 PM
> > To: Bridgman, John
> > Cc: mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: RE: [Mesa-dev] r128 problems on G3 iMac, X server locks up
> >
> > On Mon,
t; Cc: mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: RE: [Mesa-dev] r128 problems on G3 iMac, X server locks up
>
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 16:58 -0500, Bridgman, John wrote:
> > Looks like the driver isn't finding enough memory for the
> offscreen
> > buffer. Maybe try 16-bit pixel
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 16:58 -0500, Bridgman, John wrote:
> Looks like the driver isn't finding enough memory for the offscreen
> buffer. Maybe try 16-bit pixel depth instead of 24 ?
That didn't work either. Here's the relevant lines found in Xorg.l0.log
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 16:58 -0500, Bridgman, John wrote:
> Looks like the driver isn't finding enough memory for the offscreen buffer.
> Maybe try 16-bit pixel depth instead of 24 ?
Ah, I'll try that as soon as I've got xorg-server and its dependencies
built and installed. Thanks, hadn't thought
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 3:22 PM
> To: mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Mesa-dev] r128 problems on G3 iMac, X server locks up
>
> Machine in question has a R128 card w/ 16MB of RAM. Recently
> I realised that the xorg server wasn't loading the r128 DRI
> driver
Machine in question has a R128 card w/ 16MB of RAM. Recently I realised
that the xorg server wasn't loading the r128 DRI driver at all, so I
rebuilt the modules necessary (dri.ko and r128.ko), loaded them, then
started the X server.
At this point the display went blank and I found this in the Xor
