[Nouveau] nouveau on G5 Macs

[Jeroen Diederen]

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Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 19:27:
> I suspect screen tearing (as it's usually defined) is to be expected.
> Can you take a photo of what you're seeing, since I'm suspecting it's
> more than regular screen tearing?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jeroen Diederen 
> <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ilia,
>> 
>> I experience screen tearing for both 64k and 4k page size.
>> My iMac G5 has an nVidia Geforce FX 5200 Ultra GPU.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jeroen
>> 
>>   Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 17:25:
>> > Which GPU do you have? The NV40 AGP board (GeForce 6800) works
>> > particularly poorly. However as long as you go with 4k pages (and
>> > there's no real benefit to 64k pages for most applications), basic
>> > things should work. I wouldn't recommend using a GL-based compositor
>> > though.
>> >
>> > Which distortion are you talking about?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >   -ilia
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:10 AM Jeroen Diederen
>> > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I have been trying to solve nouveau issues on my iMac G5 for ages. As
>> >> far as I can understand it, there is a problem with nouveau and page
>> >> size mapping. I tried both 64K and 4K page size kernels and the the
>> >> result is always distorted video.
>> >> There is an old To-Do list, which says "fix the page size mapping
>> >> problem on G5/64 bit for exposing fifo regs" on
>> >> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo/.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any chance that this bug will be fixed ? I am not a
>> >> programmer,
>> >> so I can't be of any help.
>> >>
>> >> Jeroen Diederen
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>> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
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