From: Benjamin R. <ra...@be...> - 2001-08-14 04:19:34
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(mail logs don't show this going out before, I've been having mailer problems, so I hope this isn't a duplicate -- if so, I apologize =) Norbert Veber [nv...@pr...] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:44:34PM +0200, Marcus Schiesser wrote: > > anyone an idea? maybe its not working with the radeon ve at all? > > Did you ever get this working? I also have a Radeon VE which works > but likes to crash my whole system :( > > With 2.4.7 it would crash after about 5 days of uptime (and running > X the whole time). With 2.4.8 its much worse, and it even crashes > WITHOUT dri. > > I'd be interested in hearing if yours is just as unstable, or if > its just me.. > > PS. As for your problem, it could be caused by several versions of # the GL libraries being installed in the same time.. In my case, X thinks everything's OK, and no crashing problems (so far, but I haven't gotten out of 2D mode) but I end up with indirect rendering anyways. I checked the archives and saw one reference to someone having the same problem, but no resolution: ---(XFree86.0.log)--- (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5159) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xd0000000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xdd000000 (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) ... (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Mapped 32 vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled ---(snip!)--- ...and... ---(`glxinfo`)--- display: :0.0 screen:0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect ---(snip!)--- Any ideas what's happening here? It's like it dies somewhere between X and Mesa... -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick (ra...@be...) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ The devil's in the broad, sweeping generalizations. |