Ville Syrj�l� said:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:14:39AM +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
>> When the dfb_dok program is used with the matrox-sgram option it did
>> speed
>> up the results quite a lot. So I assumed that the G540 DH MAX has sdram
>> on it. Is this assumption incorrect?
A typo here chould have been G400 DH MAX
>
> G400 MAX has SGRAM. AFAIK only G200 and G400 cards have SGRAM but not
> all of them, some have SDRAM.
>
> With kenel >= 2.4.22 you can check the memory type with the matrox_pins
> utility. That is if the information in the card's BIOS is correct. If that
> fails the only way to make sure is to look at the memory chips.
Factory options
Reference Freq: 27.000 MHz
Memory size: 32MB
Memory type: SGLVTTL16
A bit cryptic but I guess that the SG indicate SGRAM.
> Anyways, it would appear that the corruption must be caused by something
> else...
>
>> The display is correct when the machine boots, XDirectFB is running or
>> when MPlayer is running, it only becomes corrupted when XDirectFB has
>> been
>> terminiated.
>
> The only time I managed to get my card totally messed up was with
> corrupted shared memory. I probably had some apps linked to incompatible
> DirectFB versions. After recompiling everything DirectFB related things
> returned to normal. But in a case like that the corruption should happen
> when the app is started not when it's terminated.
I don't build XDirectFB as ofter as the DirectFB core, because it takes
such a long time to build X, may be I should do this before doing anything
else.
Thanks again
Duncan
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