Re: Linux 2.5.69

Anders Karlsson (anders@trudheim.com)
05 May 2003 07:31:46 +0100


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On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 05:41, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Make sure to also test with regular 1x AGP (and no fast write stuff etc).=
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> A lot of motherboards really aren't going to like 4x and some other=20
> settings (in particular, enabling fast writes seems to be a very iffy=20
> proposition indeed).

Will try that in case that fixes the problems I see.

> Also, check if the same setup is stable under 2.4.x and possibly using th=
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> DRI CVS tree. Radeon in particular seems to be a lot stabler in DRI these=
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> days than it has historically been.
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> Indeed, one of the reasons it took me so long to figure out the stability
> issues I saw was simply that there have been real bugs in direct
> rendering, and I was blaming them instead and I spent a lot of time tryin=
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> to chase down the bug as an AGP or DRI issue.

Would you think that the problems I have been seeing with a Radeon
Mobility LY on kernel 2.4.2[01] could be down to exactly these issues as
well?

The problems are that the X server can be started only once and that
there seems to be a chance of it locking the machine hard at start after
that, especially after unloading the radeon.o module.

I will do more testing on that to find out exactly what does what, but
would 2.5.69 be a good test to see what has been fixed?

Regards,

/Anders

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