Re: Any plans to make it work?

Alex Jackson wrote:
>> 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. 

Mine worked great too until about 8 months ago. =(

> Make sure the AGP mode (8x/4x) and GART size specified in your xorg.conf match what's
> configured in your motherboard's CMOS. 

I think I have 64mb of gart allocated in the BIOS.

My motherboard's bios (Tyan Tiger MPX, s2466) it only supports 4x and 2x.

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(II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:05.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xf9a55000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xf9a55000 to 0xb7aca000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe8000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x0f000207 [AGP 0x1022/0x700c; Card
0x1002/0x5960]
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0x00000001
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring handle = 0xe4000000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring mapped at 0xaf849000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring read ptr handle = 0xe4101000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring read ptr mapped at 0xaf848000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0xe4102000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Vertex/indirect buffers mapped at 0xaf648000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART texture map handle = 0xe4302000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART Texture map mapped at 0xaf168000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0xe0000000
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized

#################################

I did not override the xorg configs...

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        #Option     "AGPSize"                   # <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"                  # <i>

#####################

> 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.

The BIOS said that that was a driver setting. It does have a fast-write
override -- currently disabled... I don't know what the setting actually
does though. I disabled fast-write in the xorg.conf but that did not
help things.

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