Re: [Dri-users] mach64 DRI XF86Config question

[Dave D. <da...@ea...>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 02:19, Leif Delgass wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2003, Dave D. wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I'm using Leif's mach64 dri branch, mach64-0-0-6-branch.
> 
> I just want to point out that the mach64 driver is the combined work of
> Gareth Hughes, Jose Fonseca, and myself.  If you're talking about the code
> in DRI cvs, you can just call it the DRI mach64 driver. ;)

My apologies to all, credit where credit is due!


> I'm running the branch on top of 4.2.0 right now, so I don't think that's 
> a problem.

Okay, that's good to know.  I would like to understand more about
the meanings of version numbers in X though.


> Could you post your XF86Config?  It sounds like a syntax problem in the 
> config.  It should look something like:
> 
> Section "Device"
> [...]
> 	Driver "ati"
> 	Option "DMAMode" "mmio"
> [...]
> EndSection

Ah...all I needed was some quotes, doh!  Thanks for this little
snippet, it was the missing information for me I guess.

Glxgears is running fine now, and I'm getting a pretty consistent
~147 fps for this.


> The recent discussion about a PCI posting problem in the Radeon driver has
> got me thinking again about the problem with DMA on ppc in the mach64
> driver.  Would you be willing to try applying a patch or two to the DRM
> in the mach64-0-0-6-branch and testing DMA?

I would be glad to; just let me know how I can go about doing this.

Dave


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Dave D. <da...@ea...>