My experience with Cirrus Logic cards has been so horrid that I never use them
any more. And I don't mean with Linux. I have been reproducibly crashing
windows from driving Cirrus Logic cards to their rated potential. I do of
course like Linux better than Windows because I can look with fair assurance
at a problem and start shifting hardware, because that is the likely area of
problem. XFree, well, it has its problems, usually soluble in the config
file, but the one card I have always had difficulty (well, two) with are
Cirrus Logic and Paradise (the old WD 9002 chip).
Civileme
Yann-Erick Proy wrote:
> It seems the Cirrus Logic 5465 driver built in the SVGA X server from
> XFree crashes the machine (the PCI bus?) whenever big transfers occur
> between graphics memory and main memory. In 1024x768 32 bpp, it was
> perfectly reproductible by playing with the desktop buttons of KDE
> (switching from First to Second and so on). I got rid of the crashes
> by setting the color depth to 16 bpp. Seems to work so far.
>
> Now you may ask why one of the machine wasn't crashing...
>
> When I found out about the bug, the person working on that machine
> realized she choosed a different screen resolution: 800x600 instead
> of 1024x768. I guess that 800x600 stresses the machine less enough
> not to have it crashing...
>
> I'm going to fill a bug report to XFree, as soon as I'll have played
> with some options of the SVGA X server (about blitter usage and so on).
>
>
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