From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF1A1389E2 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25D97E0F68; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAADE0F68 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [68.201.116.237] ([68.201.116.237:49333] helo=[192.168.1.5]) by cdptpa-oedge02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 4B/D1-18058-779BC845; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:11:04 +0000 Message-ID: <548CB972.2010906@gt.rr.com> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:10:58 -0600 From: Don Wilburn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions References: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> <518D6422.2050506@spamcop.net> <518D750C.2060004@gt.rr.com> <1368226517.12026.12.camel@n-its-7of9.mcis.washington.edu> <518DA70B.1030409@gt.rr.com> <518DCFCD.5020008@spamcop.net> <518EA5F6.4090600@gt.rr.com> <518EFEC6.1040301@spamcop.net> <5192EB61.1030900@gt.rr.com> <519E6A25.7010204@gt.rr.com> <519E708C.40102@spamcop.net> <51DE1B6C.3030302@gt.rr.com> <51DEC311.3020605@computer.org> <547B9838.5010409@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Archives-Salt: c056e947-110b-4f3f-91fa-b9d8f5e9a02b X-Archives-Hash: 7c17f5e4b0bb9a5794466658415e917c Thanks for your replies. Building the radeon driver into the kernel seems to work, but trying to make it a module does not (for me anyway). It makes me wonder if nouveau could work in a similar fashion. My X crashes were hardware problems. The early DEC Personal Workstation has a DMA problem with its 64-bit PCI slots. Some well-behaved cards work fine, apparently. This Visiontek card doesn't make that list. This is the first time I've had objective proof. Switching to a 32-bit PCI slot fixed my crashes. Once I found out those 64-bit slots were ordinary PCI. there was no reason to put the vido card there anyway. If they were PCI-X (not express), I could have gotten a 66MHz bus at least, but mine are fixed at 33. Boo hoo. My PNY GeForce 5200 did not cause problems in the bad slot. Maybe the nv driver is too timid to cause a similar problem. Maybe the hardware is less troublesome. The question is moot. I let X default to my 17" non-widescreen LCD monitor's 1280x1024 and 24-bit color. My first successful start of glxgears yielded about 60fps. I'm happy just to see those gears turn at all. Now I need to figure out something better for my fb.modes file. The framebuffer console text is tiny at 1280x1024. Adios, DW