Re: Any plans to make it work?

>Are there any plans to release a version of DRI/DRM/libGL for Radeon
>9250 based cards which doesn't lock the computer the instant I attempt
>to run _ANY_ OpenGL aware program including and especially the most
>trivial demos and diagnostic applications?

Most people with R9250s and other r200-based cards have no problems at all, 
so it's likely you have something misconfigured.  Make sure the AGP mode 
(8x/4x) and GART size specified in your xorg.conf match what's configured in 
your motherboard's CMOS.  Disable AGP Fast Writes if you have it 
enabled--it's a common cause of instability and just plain doesn't work on 
many card/mobo combinations.  Also, try dropping from AGP 8x to 4x, if 
there's an option in your mobo's CMOS menu to do so--8x seems to be a little 
flakey with r200s (the r200 was designed for 4x, and 8x support was tacked 
on to the very last cards in the family, the 9200 and 9250, as an 
afterthought)  My card (a 9200SE, which is basically an underclocked 9250) 
actually runs significantly faster in AGP 4x mode than in 8x mode.

Here's the device section from my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE]"
        Option      "EnablePageFlip" "yes"
        Option      "GARTSize" "128"
        Option      "AGPMode" "4"
EndSection

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