Re: Re: radeon questions

 >Yes, it certainly is. vblank_mode=0 will disable it.
That changed it from 60 to 299, with no other changes.

Since Matt Turner has been reading:
I am probably going to file a bug on mesa-10.3.1.  It has stopped me 
from building firefox or seamonkey.  Changing VIDEO_CARDS didn't help me 
this time.  Mesa-10.0.4 is the last one marked stable for alpha and it 
works here.  I tried a newer mesa than 10.3.1, but it failed too.
I will attach the last 10.3.1 emerge info to the bug report.
Is there any other info I can provide that will help?

 >the older ones have a problem where a bus-master DMA transfer

I read in the FreeBSD documentation that some MX-5 models had a hardware 
workaround from the factory.  Since the problem hadn't revealed itself 
with my other cards, I was hoping that might apply.  Now I know for sure 
that mine is a bad one.

 >The more recent SRM versions include a whitelist of known-good 
devices, and will refuse to boot

The AphaBIOS side tells you about "illegal" cards too.  It doesn't even 
like the DEC SCSI card.  The original Matrox card is the only one I have 
that passes.

 >Try and find out.
Of the 3 ~identical alphas I saved from the garbage truck, this is the 
best one and I'm happy to find a combo that works.  If I had another 
free monitor, I might try another.
Actually, in the mean time, I came up with a Matrox G550.  I was hoping 
it might have a driver advantage too, even though the card was weaker 
than contemporary ATI/nVidia offerings.  The kernel driver doesn't list 
G550 as a choice, but Xorg says their driver does go up to G550. 
Whatever.  I'll think about it some other time.

Adios,  DW