Re: savage-20050205-linux snapshot - problems

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:51:25 +0100, mh...@be... <mh...@be...> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 16:30, Felix K=FChling wrote:
> >
> > I took another look at your lspci-output. It's a PCI
> > card, right? I saw vertex corruption with PCI-DMA on my
> > Savage4 once. Maybe this isn't working reliably. Does it
> > help to set enable_vdma to false (in driconf or the
> > environment)? Performance will be worse though.
> >
> 
> The chip is connected to a PCI bus on the notebooks
> main board.
> 
> Haven't tried enable_vdma as solution to problem is below.
> 
> > Have you overclocked your front-side bus? In that case,
> > does it help if you don't overclock?
> 
> No overclocking by me, All I do is underclock the LCD clock=20
> to 40MHz in the hope of less heat under the keyboard :-)
> 
> >
> >
> > Did you override the VideoRam size in xorg.conf? Maybe
> > you made it believe that it has more memory than is
> > actually available.
> >
> 
> Yes, that was it, memory size was set to 16384, it =20
> apparently got only 8192 according  to Xorg log.
> Dunno why the machine is advertised with 16M and used
> this setting wo DRI for 3 years.

the DDX never used more than a couple megs probably.

> 
> Now it does work with tuxkart and tuxracer. fgfs will
> not load anymore, perhaps not enough video memory?
> 
> Is there a savage IX chip with 16M?

There were some, but I don't think they ever left S3's testing labs. 
No commercial vendors that I know of used them.

Alex