Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon problem

[Joseph C. <kng...@de...>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:20:53PM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsr?d wrote:
> > Thankfully this box uses reiserfs.  It was converted immedately after I
> > ended up with a corrupt filesystem one of the last times X did this to
> > me.. =20
>=20
> ReiserFS is more prone to fs corruption than ext2. OTOH, you don't
> have to wait for a looong time to fsck big partitions. 2.4 itself has
> a few problems... just read the changelog for the latest ac kernels.

Reiser is more prone to corruption in operation..  It seems to survive a
crash better though.  The last of the problems that kept me from running
it have been fixed thankfully.


> > Radeon support is not even pre-alpha quality right now IMO.  =3D(
>=20
> It (well, yesterdays) works fine on Red Hat Linux Wolverine + rawhide
> updates, except for Descent 3. This has been a problem with all Radeon
> drivers I've tried, though.

Current speculation is that it might be some issue with agpgart and my
Abit KT-7A..  Of course, since it's crashing in 2D, I don't see how that
can be the source of the problem.

I'm going to see if there are BIOS updates for it and I may also try the
Mesa 3.5 branch.  I'm seriously regretting my choice of the Radeon at the
moment, that's for sure.

--=20
Joseph Carter <kng...@de...>                Free software developer

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