* Re: [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions
@ 2014-12-13 22:10 99% ` Don Wilburn
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From: Don Wilburn @ 2014-12-13 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-alpha
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
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