[Dri-devel] MGA REPORT: Test with MGA fixes:

[Jeffrey I. <jhi...@ya...>]

System:

Matrox G400, BP6 with 2 Celeron 366's@600 MHz, 256MB
PC-133 SDRAM @ CAS2
XFree86 4.0.2/DRI CVS from today
SuSE Linux 7.1, Kernel 2.4.2-SMP patched with hardware
sensors, OV511, and international patch

MGA Options:

    Option	"NoHal"
    Option	"SWcursor"
    Option	"PciRetry"
    Option	"OverclockMem"
    Option	"AGPMode"	"2"

(I've tried going easy on the clock speeds and the
result is the same).

Alright, I pulled the DRI CVS earlier this afternoon
and built the MGA driver.  Several of my previous
(severe) problems seems to have been fixed, most
notably:

I can now run as many copies of Gears as my heart
desires.  At one point, I had 20 copies running
simultaneously, all overlapping and some part ways off
the screen, some shaded, etc.  Seems to work
excellent.

The green banding patterns in mentioned in the Evas
demo have disappeared.

Now, there a few items I reported that don't seem to
work right yet:

1) Opening and closing the OpenGL spectrum analyzer in
XMMS a few times will cause XMMS to quit abruptly with
the following messages in my terminal:

Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range
for operation)
  serial 39 error_code 2 request_code 146 minor_code
13

I suspect this a problem with XMMS and not DRI. 
Nothing show-stopping here, as I can simply restart
XMMS and go about my merry way.  However, I don't
receive this error with a similar system with a G400
and Utah-GLX (closing the OGL analyzer works as
expected).

2) Running the Evas demo with OpenGL will hang the X
server (ala. "obscuring window bug") if the window is
moved partially off the screen, is obscured, or
shaded.  The mouse continues to function.  The server
must be killed from a remote login, but this is not a
garantee that I will be able to recover the console. 
This is a GLU 1.3 app.  Moving or obscuring the
Blender window in the same fasion will result in the
same type of lockup.  The common thread here seems to
be that both windows are very large, cosuming the
entire visible area of the screen.

Evas needs GLU 1.3.  I am using the version from:

http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/downloads.html




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