Re: [Dri-devel] ALi Alladin V AGP patch

[Ian H. <ia...@ia...>]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:54:23AM +0100, Stefan Lucke wrote:
> On Fre, 22 Dez 2000, Ian Hastie wrote:
> > Have you limited the AGP to 1x speed?  This seems important since
> > 2x still locked my system.
> I tested this with AGPx1 and AGPx2, with and without patch.
> 
> Without patch, lock at AGPx2 was as soon as the gears window popped up
> (frame was drawn but background not cleared, old bg visible, no message).
> At AGPx1 lock was with message below at window movement.

What happens if you let gears run??  Or some other GL app.  My
experience was it would lock eventually even with no user activity.
Certainly more complex or demanding programs did.

> With patch, behaviour at AGPx1 and AGPx2 is the same (Not touching anything
> has no bad impact [gears are running for minutes]). A fast moving window
> caused a lock without message.

Is this definitely something that only happens with ALi M1541?
It seems like it could be something that stresses the code quite
hard.

> [..]
> > > Dec 21 00:41:52 jarada last message repeated 1152 times
> > > 
> > > before I had to hard reboot (rlogin from remote was ok but reboot or
> > > halt was impossible)
> > 
> > What was the difference after??
> Sorry bad english.

Trust me to read it the wrong way *8).

>                    The messages where issued before I had to press the
> reset button (after that there was an intensive file system check of
> mounted volumes :-( ).

Well I know pre-patch that I sometimes got fs corrupted.  This did
not seem to happen after it was applied.

> > Well it seems to be fixing something!
> 
> Yes gearing at AGPx2 for a short time .-) .

Yeah... 100% of it improvement *8)  I never even got 2x working in
Winblows.  ALi *should* know how to make it work if it were possible.

-- 
Ian.

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