[Dri-devel] r128 GL nasties

[Jon M. <jon...@jo...>]

Hi,
	Firstly can I thank the developers here for their time and effort in
creating DRI for X since it is much appreciated by persons such as
myself.

I am having a few difficulties with DRI under XFree86 4.0.2 with kernel
2.4.1 which usually result in hard lockups (no oopsing or panics, just
total failure) or spontaneous reboots. These are guaranteed to occur
after playing quake3 for some time, usually upon exiting quake-gl and
upon starting things like halflife under WINE. I'm not a hardcore gamer
(honest) however even more "simple" things (like gears) have been known
to cause me to hard reset.

Having had these problems, I decided yesterday to download the X CVS and
build it for myself (since the r128 kernelspace stuff has changed since
20001215 and might play nicely with my kit now - you never know). The
build was successful, the kernel module inserted okay, I started X
and... no GL. Nothing GL related was working at all and all I got were
one line error messages from the r128 driver (something concerning
buffers and an exit code of -14) when running GL apps.

I know I'm not being very helpful with error messages here but really, I
don't have many, I've switched back to my previous X and I have decided
it best to ask fokes here what sorts of logs you would like/things I
should try before playing with it again. At the moment I cannot use GL
apps because they will bring down this machine after a few minutes use.

I am running a 1.0GHz Athlon (VIA chipset) with an All in Wonder 128
(16MB RAM) board and 128MB system RAM. This is running Debian unstable
and the latest versions of software from apt (give or take a day or so
perhaps).

Once again, I don't really have much in the way of helpful logs (tracing
execution of stuff like gears doesn't seem to provide me with much
useful information, and hard lockups inevitably do not have logs...) and
for this I am sorry, I am mailing this list in the hope for suggestions
of the kinds of information you want from me and also half in the hope
that someone will simply say "yesterdays CVS was broken" :)

It would be really great if I could start using OpenGL again sometime
soon safe in the knowledge that it won't kill perihelion but of course
this isn't simple stuff happening here (and I'm not a graphics
developer) so it's understandable that there are problems of course. I
might decide soon to throw this card on the grounds that almost any
other would probably be more successful here :P

--jcm