[Openchrome-users] CX700 / EX10000

[David Shay]

Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> David Shay wrote:
>> OK, got back to my EX10000 and tried a few things.  Still getting the
>> drm acquire errors.  Set AGP back to 32MB in BIOS and that didn't
>> resolve the problem.
>>
>> I've attached my dmesg log and Xorg logs.  What could be causing the
>> drm error? The NoXVDMA flag didn't cure that.
>>
>> In general, I don't seem to have any problem with xv through either
>> mplayer or xine, but I'm not getting anything accelerated.  I think I
>> need to solve the drm memory issue first to make any progress on xvmc.
>> I can post a xine log if you want, but really looking for advice now
>> on the drm issue.
>>
>
> from your dmesg :
>
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [drm] Initialized via 2.11.1 20070202 on minor 0
>
> try downgrading to via 2.11.0, 2.11.1 has been causing trouble, so 
> let's get rid of this, just to be sure.
>
How do I specifically pull 2.11.0 ?  I've just been following the 
instructions in the wiki:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm


> Also, your kernel doesn't seem to allow agp support for the CX700, I 
> suspect the pci id to be wrong in the kernel tree.
> Replace
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700         0x8324
> by
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700         0x0324
> in kernel-source/include/linux/pci_ids.h
>
> About xxmc, please apply the attached patches and see if it helps.
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
>

Will try that tonight.  That's what another user suggested as well.  Is 
that going to get fixed upstream in the kernel eventually?