915gm/945gm/XAA lockup with gray blocks when switching video mode
Jesse Barnes
jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Oct 12 05:58:43 PDT 2007
On Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:43 pm Bryce Harrington wrote:
> I tried adding a usleep(20) inside the loops, but the issue still
> came up (seemed like it took more attempts than normal to trigger,
> but that is hard to judge).
>
> I'll also try replacing the pallet restore loops.
>
> Could you also explain a bit more about what this pallet is?
Err, I meant palette. :) It's just a guess, but it seems like banging
on those registers causes problems for some people, but only some of
the time. This may be because you just happen to hit the issue during
those PIOs or because the PIOs themselves are causing a problem
somehow. The latter might be due to the associated pipe being off,
which would disable the registers, possibly causing a GPU crash when
you wrote them (the fact that your crashes go away 100% points to this
possibility). The former would be some other problem probably caused
by earlier code that we just happen to hit when doing the palette
restoration... putting delays before palette restore might confirm or
deny that theory.
Jesse
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