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From: Don Wilburn <bodhisattva@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Re: radeon questions
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:50:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548DF804.3040100@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdQ38Etx3MG7F=SjBJHz3mz_fbGbvTD-G2ZRt5ed_5eyWSUHg@mail.gmail.com>

 >Yes, it certainly is. vblank_mode=0 will disable it.
That changed it from 60 to 299, with no other changes.

Since Matt Turner has been reading:
I am probably going to file a bug on mesa-10.3.1.  It has stopped me 
from building firefox or seamonkey.  Changing VIDEO_CARDS didn't help me 
this time.  Mesa-10.0.4 is the last one marked stable for alpha and it 
works here.  I tried a newer mesa than 10.3.1, but it failed too.
I will attach the last 10.3.1 emerge info to the bug report.
Is there any other info I can provide that will help?

 >the older ones have a problem where a bus-master DMA transfer

I read in the FreeBSD documentation that some MX-5 models had a hardware 
workaround from the factory.  Since the problem hadn't revealed itself 
with my other cards, I was hoping that might apply.  Now I know for sure 
that mine is a bad one.

 >The more recent SRM versions include a whitelist of known-good 
devices, and will refuse to boot

The AphaBIOS side tells you about "illegal" cards too.  It doesn't even 
like the DEC SCSI card.  The original Matrox card is the only one I have 
that passes.

 >Try and find out.
Of the 3 ~identical alphas I saved from the garbage truck, this is the 
best one and I'm happy to find a combo that works.  If I had another 
free monitor, I might try another.
Actually, in the mean time, I came up with a Matrox G550.  I was hoping 
it might have a driver advantage too, even though the card was weaker 
than contemporary ATI/nVidia offerings.  The kernel driver doesn't list 
G550 as a choice, but Xorg says their driver does go up to G550. 
Whatever.  I'll think about it some other time.

Adios,  DW


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-14 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10 20:51 [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 21:18 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-10 22:30   ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 22:55     ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11  0:43       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11  2:03       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11  4:57         ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11 20:11           ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12  2:30             ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-12 18:07               ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12 20:41                 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15  1:56               ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15 16:41                 ` Matt Turner
2013-05-15 20:56                   ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-16  2:31                   ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Don Wilburn
2013-05-16  2:46                     ` [gentoo-alpha] suggestion for the Alpha handbook Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 18:46                     ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Matt Turner
2013-05-16 23:44                       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:12                   ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:39                     ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-23 21:30                       ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 18:59                         ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:16                           ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:23                             ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:56                             ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 20:58                               ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 21:12                                 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 22:29                                 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-27  4:12                                   ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails FINISHED Don Wilburn
2013-05-27  4:25                                   ` [gentoo-alpha] one more thing Don Wilburn
2013-05-29  1:39                                     ` [gentoo-alpha] es1888 audio and PWS500au Don Wilburn
2013-05-29  4:47                                       ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-06-06 22:33                                         ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools Don Wilburn
2013-06-12  6:43                                           ` Matt Turner
2013-06-13  0:27                                             ` Don Wilburn
2013-06-13  7:17                                               ` Matt Turner
2013-06-14  3:27                                                 ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools bug report Don Wilburn
2014-09-26 20:51                                             ` [gentoo-alpha] install cd won't boot Don Wilburn
2014-10-06 23:41                                               ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-07 14:32                                                 ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-25 16:19                                                   ` Raúl Porcel
2013-05-24 20:46                           ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-07-11  2:41                       ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Don Wilburn
2013-07-11 14:37                         ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-07-11 18:42                           ` Don Wilburn
2014-11-30 22:20                           ` [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions Don Wilburn
2014-12-09  7:17                             ` Matt Turner
2014-12-09 12:28                               ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-09 18:56                                 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-11 14:39                                   ` Alex Deucher
2014-12-10  0:54                               ` [gentoo-alpha] " Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:10                               ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:22                                 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-13 22:25                                   ` Matt Turner
2014-12-14 20:50                                     ` Don Wilburn [this message]
2014-12-14 21:21                                       ` Måns Rullgård
2014-12-26 22:33                                         ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question Don Wilburn
2014-12-27 21:09                                           ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question solved Don Wilburn
2015-02-01 20:31                                             ` [gentoo-alpha] bug filed, probably happens to Alpha alone Don Wilburn
2015-02-04  0:14                                               ` Don Wilburn
2015-06-16  0:22                                   ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 15:40                                     ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question -follow up Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 21:17                                       ` Alan Young
2013-07-21  4:10                         ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Matt Turner
2013-07-23  0:26                           ` Don Wilburn

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