radeon tiling again...

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:24:54 +0100, Roland Scheidegger
<rscheidegger_lists at hispeed.ch> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> >>>Tested these on mergedfb and all works well.  pageflipping still
> >>>doesn't work with mergedfb.
> >>
> >>Is that with Roland's separate patch for this applied as well?
> >>
> >
> >
> > yes.  I doesn't work with various attempts I made as well.
> I've done some tests too with faked mergedfb (replugging the monitor
> constantly is a major pita, btw), and this boils down to a simple
> initalization issue (at least with the mergedfb pageflip patch). Because
> it actually only happens the first time a 3d app is started, switching
> to a VT and back or scrolling in a virtual resolution fixes it and it
> will never appear again.
> I believe the problem is AdjustFrame is only called before dri
> initialization is finished, so directRendering is not enabled yet and
> thus the values in the sarea never written.
> However, I tried fixing that by moving (also tried copying) the
> pScrn->AdjustFrame(scrnIndex, pScrn->frameX0, pScrn->frameY0, 0);
> to the end of RADEONScreenInit (3 lines before the end to be exact) and
> all I got was a SIGSEGV :-(. I can't see why it would segfault and can't
> debug it, since as always when Xorg crashes in initialization, I don't
> have any display left...
> 
> Roland
> 
> 

what about calling adjustframe() again after DRI initialization?

Alex