On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:58:13 +0100 Stephane Marchesin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> khaqq wrote: > > >Probably not. My FireGL8800 used to crash a lot about one year ago while > >ajax' never crashed. And as far as I can tell, there is only one BIOS for > >that card. ( http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/?search=8800&Submit=Search ) > >BTW, a friend of mine reports 6.8.2 stable with his 8800, while it did not > >work on my machine. > > That site is probably far from exhaustive. I know at least two bioses > for the 7000 that are not listed there. And I've seen radeon caching > issues solved by bios updates in the past. Well, the two 8800 I know of have the same exact BIOS (MD5) that this website lists. I will check the third one I have bought for another friend. Also, the 8800 is a workstation card and I do not believe ATI would change things often after release since that would mean certifying a lot of things afterwards. I could be wrong. ajax, could you check your 8800's BIOS against the one listed on techpowerup and see if it is the same ? > Also, you don't happen to have fast writes enabled ? It did not make any difference. I tried FW on and OFF, AGP 1X, 2X, 4X, TCL, NoTCL... Every configuration would crash at one point or the other. The only thing that was clear was FW + AGP 4X + TCL crashed a hell of a lot faster than FW OFF + AGP 1X + NoTCL. Like, "within the first seconds" versus 10-15 minutes. The main factor seemed to be TCL/NoTCL and then AGP 4X vs AGP 2X. Right now, 2.6.13 + DRM/DRI snapshot from 4 August 2005 + 6.8.99.15 is perfectly stable - not a single crash to report. And that's with FW enabled ( Option "AGPFastWrite" "on" ). khaqq ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
