rv630 + dri on = massive corruption
Jesús Guerrero
i92guboj at terra.es
Fri Sep 11 03:25:40 PDT 2009
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:48:39 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
I will check that the next time I boot, but I never understood the
concept or "AGP aperture size", and I don't have any idea of what the
correct/desired value is.
--
Jesús Guerrero
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