At 10:44 AM 6/11/02, you wrote: >On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:39:36AM -0600, Mark Lane wrote: > > At 07:02 AM 6/10/02, you wrote: > > > > >I suppose every knows this, if so please > > >ignore. > > > > > >I have a dual Athlon 1600+MP. I tried the > > >2.5.21 kernel enabled with the radeon module. > > >My machine goes completely dead when I start X. > > > > > >I have a Radeon 8500. > > > > Check out ATI drivers for the FireGL 8800. Apparently they work though are > > somewhat buggy. > >I tested it. > >This driver does not work for me (Tyan Thunder dual Athlon MB/Radeon >8500). The Xserver is incredibly slow in both 2D/3D when DRM is >enabled. It looks like every framebuffer area copies fail in >this mode. It sounds like an AGP problem. ATI includes a customized >agpgart driver, which fails to init. The regular agpgart module is then >loaded, but its use counter remains at zero. Booting with mem=nopentium >doesn't help. > >So I'll personnaly wait for the open source DRI driver for this board :-)
Hmm, I bet ATI would be interested to know that their driver doesn't work with AMD's Chipset. They would probably want to fix it. Most likely their AGP driver needs to have Irongate support added like the linux did. regards, -- Mark Lane Hard Data Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 http://www.harddata.com/ --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <--
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