From: Alex D. <ag...@ya...> - 2004-05-26 00:57:39
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My G550 was always rock solid. you might try a new DRI cvs snapshot: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download Alex --- Chris Metzler <cme...@sp...> wrote: > > Hi, > > When I originally built this machine, I picked up a Matrox G550 video > card on the advice of several people who told me 1) that it was a > very > good 2D card (which is most of my work), and 2) that Matrox is the > most open source-friendly video card maker. The second one mattered > a lot to me -- I wanted to reward a company that reportedly tried to > make things easier for the open source development community. > > Since I got the card, everything's been fine in 2D; but 3D use has > been > perilous, with repeated hard lockups. This card isn't designed to > excel at 3D; I expected performance to be poor. But I didn't expect > to have to stay away entirely from 3D intensive stuff for fear of > locking up the machine. I went a while without reporting the bug > because I didn't know enough to finger any particular component > (kernel > modules, X drivers). With Debian finally getting X 4.3 not too long > ago, I upgraded; I still get the lockups during DRI-intensive stuff, > but now at least I'm getting a diagnostic. Upon reboot, the old XF86 > log is filled with "(EE) MGA(0): [dri] Idle timed out, resetting > engine..." messages. Aha. So, I went ahead and filed a bug at > Debian. They marked it upstream; so I filed a bug here, which got > reported in dri-devel, about two weeks ago. > > When doing research for the bug report, I noticed a couple of other > bug filings that seemed relevant; but I couldn't tell whether it was > the same bug or not. One that seemed most relevant had been posted > on the X.org bugzilla. I'm a bit concerned by the fact that my bug > report didn't get an acknowledgement from anyone, so I dunno whether > it got read or not; but more worrisome to me was that the similar > bug posted on the X.org bugzilla had been posted over a month ago, > and hadn't received any acknowledgement either. > > I've since learned that the bug reporting/tracking system for DRI > is in a bit of flux right now; and that could result in people not > really seeing the bugs. But I notice in the mailing lists a lot > of discussion about fixing radeon and nvidia stuff, and not much > discussion of mga issues. Maybe that's a measure of popularity. > But nonetheless, all this makes me wonder: are the Matrox drivers > still being actively supported? I'm not completely averse to > changing video cards; I'd just rather not if I don't have to. > > I worry that it seems like I'm complaining; I promise I'm not. I'm > tremendously grateful for the effort that the developers put into > this. Even if the drivers are still being maintained, I wouldn't > expect any fix to be quick. I'm just trying to figure out what > the future is likely to hold, so that I can decide what my best > course of action is now. If the support is still there, then I'm > happy to wait for a fix to appear eventually. But if DRI support > for Matrox cards is waning, then I wanna know that so that I can > give up on this card and work on getting another, rather than > wait for fixes that probably aren't going to be coming along. > > Thanks for reading all this, > > -c > > -- > Chris Metzler cme...@sp... > (remove "snip-me." to email) > > "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace > since I > have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ |