From: Chris M. <sir...@ya...> - 2001-08-06 22:35:09
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Hello Yeah, it's pretty strange, huh. I hate to admit that windoze is in any way superior to Linux but it seems that the ATI guys must have written something to kickstart the radeon card into working. And yes, I did have some very serious issues in windows as well. There were all sorts of problems with DirectX crashing. After a little digging through the newsgroup archives and msdn, I got the newest ATI driver to function and then when I came back to Linux all was working well, just as had happend to you. I dunno. On the other hand, it could just as well been a fluke. Glad to have been able to help you out with your problem even if it was a bit unconventional. Chris --- billt <bi...@if...> wrote: > Hi, Chris, > > I have a similar setup as your: > > Athlon 1.4G > Asus A7A266 - AliMAGIK > ATI All in Wonder 128 pro (AGP, 32MB) > Kernel 2.4.7 DRM (r128) + agpgart > XFree86 4.1.0, release > - with special drivers to take advantage of the > tv tuner through xv. www.linuxvideo.org/gatos > > I had the same problem, as described in your eariler > emails... particularly the hard lock-ups on running > glxgears. Another > symptom I had was that, in some cases, not only > would the > machine lock up, but shortly after the lockup the > monitor would > go into 'no signal' mode. > > This problem would occur regardless of whether the > agpgart and drm > support was compiled statically or as modules, and > regardless of > agp "Nx" settings or memory aperatures. > > After read about your windows experience and I > installed windows > ME along with the ATI-supplied device drivers (I've > always wanted > to try out the video capture capabilities of this > card). Windows > was _very_ unstable with my setup, and I read on > ATI's site that > there is a problem and updated ATI drivers... > anyway... > > Booted back into linux today and tried XFree with > DRI again and, > well, it worked. I was getting exactly 200fps with > glxgears w/o DRI > and now I get 350fps and stability (regardless of 1x > 2x or 4x AGP.) > and switching resolutions between 640x480 to > 1024x768 gives maybe > a 30fps boost. > > The only thing I did (other than normal, non-dri > usage) after the > windows boot is try the non-linuxvideo ati drivers > (worked) then > tried the drivers from linuxvideo (worked, too). > > Maybe you are right after all about Windows > kick-starting something > in our hardware. > > > True enough, but I set the AGP Port to a higher > speed not a > > lower. > > > There are places in the DRI documentation that > stress that > > lower speeds should be used initially(ie. the > radeon driver > > documentation) rather than higher because of > stability > > issues. > > > If it was the AGP speed change that made the > driver work > > properly then why wouldn't it have worked at 2x or > 1x? My > > motherboard and card are advertised as working at > these > > speeds as well as at 4x. > > > I am not suggesting that I have found the answer > to why my > > system magically started working. I am merely > suggesting the > > possibility that somehow the windoze drivers did > something > > to kick start my hardware (or maybe the drivers > did > > something as sneaky as updating some of the > firmware?) > > > Chris > > --- Matt Koch <<EMAIL: PROTECTED>> wrote: > > Heh, that doesn't sound like a proper analysis. > You > > changed the BIOS > > setting for the AGP port which the card uses. > That > > sounds more like > > something that would affect how it works. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-users mailing list > Dri...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-users _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca |