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#70 G400SH and ut gives comlete black screen

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2000-10-30
2000-08-23
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When starting the game Uneal Tournament (ut 4.25)
I get a comlete black screen in full screen mode or a black window in windowed mode. But the game seems to run ok, I hear sound and can contorl the program with the keyboard .

The OpenGL demos from Mesa are running without problems.

Is this a problem with the unknown VIA chipset for kernel 2.2.16?

insmod agpgart:
Using /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/agpgart.o
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/agpgart.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

dmesg:
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset, you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.

insmod agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
Using /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/agpgart.o

dmesg:
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: Trying generic Via routines for device id: 391
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000

testgart (without /etc/X11/glx.conf):
version: 0.99
bridge id: 0x3911106
agp_mode: 0x1f000203
aper_base: 0xd0000000
aper_size: 64
pg_total: 24064
pg_system: 24064
pg_used: 0
entry.key : 0
entry.key : 1
Allocated 8 megs of GART memory
MemoryBenchmark: 272 mb/s
MemoryBenchmark: 277 mb/s
MemoryBenchmark: 285 mb/s
Average speed: 278 mb/s
Testing data integrity (1st pass): passed on first pass.
Testing data integrity (2nd pass): passed on second pass.

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0391 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8391
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 21)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] (rev 20)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04)

System:
AMD Athon 700MHz, 128MB RAM, EP-7KXA
Matrox G400SH
20GB Quantum Fireball EIDE
onboard sound via686a (alsa)

Debian potato, XFree 3.3.6,
Kernel 2.2.16 with agpgart patch,
utah-glx >= 0.0.20000810

Discussion

  • Axel Dürrbaum

    Axel Dürrbaum - 2000-08-24

    Some corrections (sorry):
    + OpenGL demos do NOT work - same black screen
    + when setting nohw=1 they work, but painfully slow

    Seems to be a problem with utah-glx

     
  • Frank C. Earl

    Frank C. Earl - 2000-10-30
    • assigned_to: nobody --> svartalf
     

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