On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:14:22PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> > This would mean that the bug is back and people will again have the stupid
> 
> No, it doesn't.
> 
> > VT switch lockup.  What would be the New and Improved Way(tm) way of
> > explicitly re-enabling bus-mastering at RADEONEnterVT() time since
> > xf86EnablePciBusMaster() has been deprecated?
> 
> Just like the change notice says:  When a PCI device is enabled, it's bus
> mastering is also enabled.  This occurs before any driver code is
> executed.

I'm running the DRI tree, so I can't test.  However, we still don't know why
these cards disabled bus mastering at VT switches (when it was very clearly
enabled before the switch), so what guarantees that they won't still do
this?  Mike (Harris), do you have one of the affected cards running XFree86
HEAD?

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charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/
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