* Re: [gentoo-alpha] Re: radeon questions
@ 2014-12-14 20:50 99% ` Don Wilburn
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From: Don Wilburn @ 2014-12-14 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-alpha
>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
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2013-07-11 14:37 ` Andrew Gaylard
2014-11-30 22:20 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions Don Wilburn
2014-12-09 7:17 ` Matt Turner
2014-12-13 22:10 ` Don Wilburn
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