From: Steven N. <dri...@sn...> - 2000-05-10 13:07:20
|
On Wed, 10 May 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Andy Lo A Foe wrote: > > > I recently installed the mga-0-0-3-branch for my G400 MAX card, since the > > Irongate AGPgart module was fixed (thanks again!). I'm experiencing 2D > > corruption in some applications notably Netscape and WindowMaker. It looks > > like the server is caching xwindow content but for some reason this gets > > corrupted. An image of this drawing error can be found at: > > > > http://loafoe.net/huh.jpg > > I see similar behaviour with the main trunc (with G400 MAX DH). > > > > > The 2D corruption only happens if the mga DRM module is loaded. > > > > I'm not sure of this.. might be. I have this problem too, I had put it down to a bug in the Xserver but this does seem to be the prerequisite > > > As for the 3D part; I am able to start Quake 3 Arena and even play a > > couple of minutes but it always locks up the Xserver at some point in the > > game. I can usually sysreq-S,U to spare the fsck but attempting to sysreq-B > > really locks up hard. Framerate is quite good though, about 90% of what I > > get with Utah-GLX. Utah works flawlessly on my setup BTW. > > I have also found this, although I have on occasion I also experienced DMA timeouts with Utah I get lockups with some of the xscreensaver 3d savers too especially lament, though it doesn't always cause the machine to lock up. Sometimes it is posible to exit the screensaver normally despite being frozen, other times only sysreq works and rarely it completly locks up - only reset button works :( > > Are you sure you have assigned IRQ that is not shared with any other cards > for the G400? This is definatly ok here I also have a G400MAX on a ALi chipset motherboard (Microstar) and an AMD K6-2/400 /w 196Mb SDRAM. __ Steven Newbury |