Xorg 7.0-rc1 and EXA (radeon 9200)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 17:32 +0000, morgoth6 at box43.pl wrote:
> Hell[o]
>  
> > Have you tried the patch that Thomas Winischhofer commited yesterday ?
> 
> Yes, I updated EXA with this change.
>  
> > Let me know if it makes any difference. Also, do you have DRI & AGP
> > working ?
> 
> Hmmm, not realy. EXA is still slow. I use Pegasos machine then there is no way to use the real AGP but DRI is running.
> My card is of coz AGP but forced to PCI mode in xorg.conf (I think my DRI lockup problem was caused by this)
> If you need any additional informations just say. I will try my best to help with this.

There is a known issue with PCI GART and the current radeon driver that
causes lockups on kernel launch when using DRI, I'll try to have a
proper fix for it today or tomorrow.

Note that I have a pegasos here and EXA isn't _that_ slow.

Ben.