Direct Rendering Infrastructure

yes, i was on efnet and talked there to some dudes. they told
me about that... it was really that damn little thing. as i changed
the biossettings, i wanted to keep as much irq's as possible. it worked
for me for a couple of months without problems until this happened.
after i enabled it. i got full performance.. thanx again...

ali

On Fri, 12 May 2000, John Fulmer wrote:

> galaxy wrote:
> 
> > thanx for your message!
> > excuse me i used UTAH-GLX for a couple of time and it never wanted an
> > IRQ. At least your message seem to be a bit cutoff. may you tell me where
> > to set the IRQ ? in /proc ? in BIOS or at lilo startup ????
> 
> It's in the BIOS, under the PCI config section in Award BIOS's.
> 
> This may also be that your AGP slot is trying to share in IRQ with
> another device. Apparently, that can do it as well, as I just found
> out. AGP and ACPI controllers cannot share the same interrupt.
> Whoops.
> 
> jf
>

galaxy wrote:
> 
> yes, i was on efnet and talked there to some dudes. they told
> me about that... it was really that damn little thing. as i changed
> the biossettings, i wanted to keep as much irq's as possible. it worked
> for me for a couple of months without problems until this happened.
> after i enabled it. i got full performance.. thanx again...
> 
> ali

The DRI does require the IRQ, Utah is a little bit different in that it
does not do IRQ driven dma.

Sorry if the previous message was a seemed a little curt, it was not
meant to be.

-Jeff

np, everything works fine now ;)
its importand to add it to an faq, so everyone could
profit out of this.

ali


On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jeff Hartmann wrote:

> galaxy wrote:
> > 
> > yes, i was on efnet and talked there to some dudes. they told
> > me about that... it was really that damn little thing. as i changed
> > the biossettings, i wanted to keep as much irq's as possible. it worked
> > for me for a couple of months without problems until this happened.
> > after i enabled it. i got full performance.. thanx again...
> > 
> > ali
> 
> The DRI does require the IRQ, Utah is a little bit different in that it
> does not do IRQ driven dma.
> 
> Sorry if the previous message was a seemed a little curt, it was not
> meant to be.
> 
> -Jeff
>