gatos & xorg

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Dave Airlie wrote:

>> Well, if there was a choice to be made, between making drm/dri work on
>> an rv280 chipset, and making the tv out work, you just have to know
>> which my wish gets hung on, the drm/dri stuff,  glxgears run about
>> 200 frames here, and tuxracer brings an XP2800 athlon to its knees
>> gasping for air and begging for mercy.  About 1/2 frame per second
>> and so laggy the reset button is the only really workable way out of
>> it.
>
> your rv280 is a 9200SE, I assume the Athlon is a 32-bit only version,
> if so drm/dri works perfectly on this setup, lots of people have exact
> same setups running for a long time, so I'd say something wierd
> happened locally on your system to break it...
>
> I think I tried debugging it before for you to no avail, but it is
> definitely a problem only specific to your system, my 9200 rocks along
> at home fine in 3D...

I am not sure whether this has been covered, but since RV280 is AGP 8x 
card it might make sense to experiment with settings in BIOS and check 
what are the AGP modes used by participating components (X, agp, drm..)

                          best

                            Vladimir Dergachev