2009/9/11 Jesús Guerrero <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:48:39 -0400, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 2009/9/10 Jesús Guerrero <[email protected]>: >>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:23:57 -0400, Alex Deucher > <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> The problem is that you have an AGP card. Try adjusting the AGP >>>> aperture size in the bios. if that doesn't work, you can try using >>>> the internal gart rather than AGP. Add: >>>> Option "BusType" "PCIE" >>>> to the device section of your xorg config. >>> >>> Adding the option to my config worked. There are occasional glitches >>> but nothing that I can't live with. >> >> Did changing the AGP aperture size in the bios help? The AGP aperture >> needs to be aligned to a 4 MB boundary on r6xx/r7xx chips and I'm not >> sure all bios do that reliably. > > I will check that the next time I boot, but I never understood the > concept or "AGP aperture size", and I don't have any idea of what the > correct/desired value is.
It's an aperture that does address remapping. The agp chipset driver binds pages to the gart and makes them appear as a contiguous address range to the the GPU. The larger the size, the more pages can be bound; i.e., the more system ram you can use from the GPU. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
