RE: [Dri-devel] Complete system hang w/g400 50% of the time

[STEVEN N. <sn...@ab...>]

At 18:33 02/12/2000 +0100, Danny Tholen wrote:
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>
>> Yes.
>>
>> There is a patch on ALi's web site for the AGP support which fixes _most_
>> of the lockup issues for me. You'll need to do some editting to apply their
>> changes to the latest kernels as the patch doesn't apply cleanly, but it
>> doesn't take too long to cut-and-paste most of it
>
>Thanks Bill!
>I copied and pasted the patch (only the extra buffer flush part, not the 
>support for the other Ali chipsett) into the backported agpgart module in my 
>mandrake 2.2.17 kernel, and recompiled the module. It works flawless now:
all 
>the random lockups when starting a GL app for the first time are gone. Only 
>when opening/closing windows while an openGL window is active can still
cause 
>a lockup (due to [drm:mga_fire_primary] *ERROR* num_dwords == 0 when 
>dispatched )
>
>Hopefully the patch will be in the standart agpgart module quickly. For
those 
>that cannot wait, here is the adres of the patch:
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>ftp://www.ali.com.tw/driver/ali_agp_240-test5.patch
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>Remember you need to edit it a bit to make it work.
>
>-Danny
I can confirm that this fixes it for me too! :-)
Steve Newbury