rv630 + dri on = massive corruption
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 19:48:39 PDT 2009
2009/9/10 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj at terra.es>:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:23:57 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> The problem is that you have an AGP card. Try adjusting the AGP
>> aperture size in the bios. if that doesn't work, you can try using
>> the internal gart rather than AGP. Add:
>> Option "BusType" "PCIE"
>> to the device section of your xorg config.
>
> Adding the option to my config worked. There are occasional glitches
> but nothing that I can't live with.
Did changing the AGP aperture size in the bios help? The AGP aperture
needs to be aligned to a 4 MB boundary on r6xx/r7xx chips and I'm not
sure all bios do that reliably.
>
> So, is agp going unsupported nowadays or is this a bug I should
> report?
AGP is supported, but has always been problematic. The sooner it goes
away the better.
Alex
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