Is 128 MB some sort of a sweet spot for ram allocated to gpu ? (hard coded?)
First Alex suggested that, & now you. (asking 'coz i used 256 MB while testing) -JoJo On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is xf86-driver-ati 6.8.0 not a proper release? I'm pretty sure the > > combination of that, 2.6.25-rc3 and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON causes my machine > > to become unresponsive. I only tried a git build of the driver after the > > released version was causing issues. > > Yes we made a mistake with 6.8.0 enabling DRI on rs680 chips before we > knew it worked for everyone, I may be still able to fix this in the kernel > but there is a good chance that it'll require a 6.8.1 userspace, I can't > do anything else about it.. > > Jonathan I appreciate the bug report, I'm more saying to Andrew that > getting DRI right on new chipsets is non-trivial as there are lot of > configurations we can't test until we actually push the code to users.. > and in this case you are one of those.. > > you might try setting the VRAM in your BIOS to 128MB instead of Auto and > seeing it helps.. > > I'll be trying to fix the problem properly quite soon. > > The correct workaround is to add Option "DRI" "Off" to xorg.conf or for me > to travel back in time and unrelease 6.8.0. Removing the kernel DRI > support will just break lots of working systems. > > Dave. > > > > > > Replacing 2.6.25-rc3 with 2.6.24 (still with CONFIG_DRM_RADEON enabled) > > results in a machine that boots to GDM successfully. Likewise if I > > disable CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in 2.6.25-rc3 the machine boots to GDM ok. > > > > J. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
