On Sam, 2013-10-05 at 15:13 +0200, Jochen Rollwagen wrote: > > I’m running a RV280 based Radeon 9200 card (I know, an ancient card) > in a Mac Mini G4 (powerpc-architecture) with Ubuntu Precise and the > latest 3.4.64-kernel/ati driver and get lockups when trying to run the > card in AGP mode (KMS enabled). The lockups happen when resetting the > card (that’s what I can infer from the oops-screen).
It's the other way around: The kernel radeon driver resets the card to try and get it running again after a lockup. > PCI mode works. After researching I found a old bug that was fixed > back in 2006 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011) that > looks like the freeze I experience (since PCI mode – which allocates > 64 MB of memory - works and AGP mode which by default allocates 256 MB > doesn’t). The card has 64 mb memory. > > > So the first question is, could this be the problem that causes the > lockups ? Not really. The GART and VRAM memory apertures aren't directly related, and the fix for the bug above should still be incorporated in the current radeon KMS code. Does radeon.agpmode=1 or radeon.agpmode=4 work? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
