Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon on Irongate (AMD761 chipset)

[Rich 'F. M. <wy...@ic...>]

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At the risk of sounding anal-retentive, Irongate refers ONLY to the AMD-750 
chipset, and the AMD-751 northbridge in particular. It's become common 
practice to refer to the AMD-760 as Irongate as well, and this is confusing a 
LOT of people, needlessly. 

Radeon requires AGPgart for 3D for certain, and it may require AGPgart just 
to load. As this is the DRI list, I'm assuming you'd like working 3D. 
insmodding agpgart with the agp_try_unsupported=1 set should do the trick, at 
least to get you running until proper AMD-76* docs come in from AMD for the 
agpgart guys.

All Thunderbird (on-die cache) Athlons use ECC in their cache. Quite a few 
motherboards enable this by default. I'm not sure how you would check, but 
unless it's absolutely vital to your well-being, I'd say it would be entirely 
safe to assume ECC is enabled on the L2.

On Saturday 21 July 2001 23:05, you wrote:
> Hello --
> 	My Lab recently purchased some Athlon 1.4Ghz
> machines with an asus A7M266DDR motherboard and Radeon 64MB DDR
> cards.  X would not work at all with the radeon driver, it
> hung up the machine,  I could get them to limp along if
> I used the vesa driver.  I think I traced it to the fact
> that that agpgart does not load in the kernel.  Does anyone
> know anything about this?  Do the radeon's require
> agpgart in order to provide even 2D support (3D would be
> nice, though).  (As a side note, do the 1.4Ghz Athlons
> support ECC on the L2 cache and if not, then is
> that the reason why that option does not appear in the BIOS
> settings?)
>
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