Re: [Dri-users] Radeon 9200 with DVI and DRI

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:28:29 +0100
Felix Kühling <fx...@gm...> wrote:

> As I reported on the IRC meeting today, I have a similar problem with a
> brand new Transcend Radeon 9200. If I start a 3D app it takes one or two
> seconds and then the DVI port switches to power save mode. In my case
> the symptoms point to a heat problem.
> 
> 1. It takes about 1 second for the DVI port to switch off.
> 
> 2. It takes longer the first time I run a 3D app after a while.
> 
> 3. After playing Quake3 for about 15 minutes it took several minutes for
>    the DVI port to become active again.
> 
> 4. I was able to trigger the problem with some 2D load on the GPU:
> 
>    x11pert -fcircle100

Sorry for the typo. It's of cource x11perf. Actually x11perf -fcircle500
does the trick even much quicker. Less work for the CPU, more work for
the GPU.

> 
>    I also tested this with dri disabled in XF86Config-4.
> 
> 5. The chip has a passive heat sink on this graphics board.
> 
> I'm going to get a different card now. Maybe a 9200 SE. It's cheap and
> also has a passive cooling but is probably clocked at a lower frequency
> (didn't find any clocking info about the Transcend board). The only
> drawback is that the memory interface is only 64 bit wide. :-/
> 
> Take care,
>   Felix
> 
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:31:57 -0800 (PST)
> Alex Deucher <ag...@ya...> wrote:
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