From: "JoJo jojo" <onetwojojo@gmail.com>
To: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: "Jonathan McDowell" <noodles@earth.li>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3 + RS690 + DRM + xf86-video-ati hang
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:43:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <226dee610803040913h4718b61r4310fa78938bc386@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.82.0803041120400.24971@skynet.skynet.ie>
Is 128 MB some sort of a sweet spot for ram allocated to gpu ?
(hard coded?)
First Alex suggested that, & now you.
(asking 'coz i used 256 MB while testing)
-JoJo
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> wrote:
> >
> > Is xf86-driver-ati 6.8.0 not a proper release? I'm pretty sure the
> > combination of that, 2.6.25-rc3 and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON causes my machine
> > to become unresponsive. I only tried a git build of the driver after the
> > released version was causing issues.
>
> Yes we made a mistake with 6.8.0 enabling DRI on rs680 chips before we
> knew it worked for everyone, I may be still able to fix this in the kernel
> but there is a good chance that it'll require a 6.8.1 userspace, I can't
> do anything else about it..
>
> Jonathan I appreciate the bug report, I'm more saying to Andrew that
> getting DRI right on new chipsets is non-trivial as there are lot of
> configurations we can't test until we actually push the code to users..
> and in this case you are one of those..
>
> you might try setting the VRAM in your BIOS to 128MB instead of Auto and
> seeing it helps..
>
> I'll be trying to fix the problem properly quite soon.
>
> The correct workaround is to add Option "DRI" "Off" to xorg.conf or for me
> to travel back in time and unrelease 6.8.0. Removing the kernel DRI
> support will just break lots of working systems.
>
> Dave.
>
>
> >
> > Replacing 2.6.25-rc3 with 2.6.24 (still with CONFIG_DRM_RADEON enabled)
> > results in a machine that boots to GDM successfully. Likewise if I
> > disable CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in 2.6.25-rc3 the machine boots to GDM ok.
> >
> > J.
> >
> >
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 19:35 2.6.25-rc3 + RS690 + DRM + xf86-video-ati hang Jonathan McDowell
2008-03-02 19:23 ` Alex Deucher
2008-03-04 6:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-04 8:16 ` Dave Airlie
2008-03-04 8:51 ` Jonathan McDowell
2008-03-04 9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-04 9:24 ` Dave Airlie
2008-03-04 10:33 ` Jonathan McDowell
2008-03-04 11:23 ` Dave Airlie
2008-03-04 17:13 ` JoJo jojo [this message]
2008-03-04 18:02 ` Alex Deucher
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