Re: PROBLEM: Hangup with Radeon9200 accel. Does not happen when not using agpgart or disabling CPU internal cache.

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Oct 20, 2003 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Juanjo García Carré wrote:
> 7) Make sure the agpgart module (and the intel_agp module for 2.6
> kernels) are loaded before launching XFree.
> 
> 8) Launch X. Everything seems to work; glxinfo says Yes as to direct
> rendering. Now launch an OpenGL application, like glxgears:
> It runs for some instants, then becomes blocked, as does the rest of the
> system.

I added this to my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to prevent my system
from locking solid as you describe.  This forces XFree86 to drive
my Radeon 9200 as if it were a Radeon 9000.  Before upgrading X,
I had to use 0x4242 to drive my card as a Radeon 8500.

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Radeon"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Option          "AGPMode"  "4"
        Option          "EnablePageflip"  "1"
        ChipID          0x4964
        #ChipID         0x4242
EndSection

 -Erik

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