Bug#449211: xserver-xorg-video-ati: no video sync when dri enabled

[Brice Goglin]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Joachim Achtzehnter <joachim at kraut.ca> wrote:
> > Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> > > Another option would be to try the various displaypriority options
> > > (see the radeon man page).
> >
> > Both DisplayPriority "HIGH" and DisplayPriority "BIOS" seem to work. Is
> > there any documentation of what these settings mean?
> 
> they adjust the display controller priority with respect to the memory
> controller.  On some cards (especially cards with limited memory
> bandwidth), you need to adjust it.

(coming back on this old thread to update the bug report status).

Alex,

Can we expect this DisplayPriority "BIOS" to be automatically enabled
by the driver when needed, in some future version? Or is Joachim going
to keep the option in xorg.conf for ever?

Thanks,
Brice