Re: fonts corruption with 3dfx drm module

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz)
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:40:51 +0200 (SAST)


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:

> > (mostly because with 3.3.6 i never setup the MTRRs myself)
>
> We 3.3.6 you have to do it some times.

Yep mine never got enabled per default, if i enabled it i would experience
the same segfaults and font corruption so i got 3.3.6 to "behave" like
4.1 default and reproduced the problem.

> This could be all the VIA/mobo/BIOS problems widely discussed.
> Maybe the latest AGP GART issue.

This was about a year ago, and i wasn't aware of an issue.

> Have you ever looked at XFree and/or DRI devel?
> I think this could and should be solved. Without notice nobody cares...

I think i'll do that.

> You should definitely go with XFree86 4.2.0. It is out and most distros have
> packages available. Then look deeper into the MTRR problem.

Thanks for reply, i'm going to resurrect that board ;)

Cheers,
Zwane Mwaikambo

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