Re: [Dri-users] Radeon 64 DDR: DRI lockup issues

[Chris M. <sir...@ya...>]

That's bizarre.

You mean alanh's precompiled drm module works without
agpgart? And it works faster?

Chris

--- billt <bi...@if...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:10:33AM -0400, Chris
> McGee wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain that the DRI drivers won't work
> > without the agpgart kernel module. I believe that
> it
> > is needed for the drivers to interact with the agp
> > video card.
> 
> It seems that the r128 module being loaded is the
> one from 
>    http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/
> I was playing around with it, and thought I'd
> removed it when I
> made modules_install, but it seems that it remained.
> my bad.
> 
> I rm -rf'd the 2.4.7 modules directory, remade the
> kernel+modules
> and reinstalled them and, as you indicated, the r128
> module will
> not load without agpgart. And when it does, it
> crashes big-time
> when glxgears is run.
> 
> So it is the r128 module from ~alanh that is causing
> dri to work
> for me, with slightly better results than non-dri.
> 
> > On my Radeon, I'm getting somewhere around 300-600
> fps
> > when running glxgears depending on the window
> size.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > --- billt <bi...@if...> wrote:
> > > Yes, it seems that somehow the r128 driver is 
> loading 
> > > _without_ the agpgart module. I read where the
> fps	on 
> > > the same card as mine, working properly (with 
> agpgart 
> > > and dri r128 driver was getting 6-700 fps. the 
> slight 
> > > acceleration I was getting (150 extra fps) was 
> probably
> > > from the r128 w/o agpgart. 
> 
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