i810 1.7.4 driver lockups

[Roderick Greening]

Ok, added option and restarted. 3D apps no longer crash.

Is there a point in which I should be able to turn this option off or is 
this something that will need to be left in place indefinately for my video 
card?


>From: Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk>
>To: Roderick Greening <roderick_greening at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: i810 1.7.4 driver lockups
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>The option didn't exist in 1.7.2
>
>Alan.
>
>On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:51 -0330, Roderick Greening wrote:
> > I haven't tried that, but I will. It was working without this option 
>with
> > xorg 7.2, Mesa 6.5.2 and vid driver 1.7.2 though.
> >
> >
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> > >On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:04 -0330, Roderick Greening wrote:
> > > > I recently tried using xf86-video-i810 version 1.7.4 (previous 
>working
> > >was
> > > > 1.7.2).
> > > >
> > > > I have a gentoo linux setup, with xorg 7.1. The driver version for 
>1.7.2
> > >was
> > > > fine. Upon attempting to use 1.7.4 with any accelerated app, it 
>locks up
> > >the
> > > > display. This was with Mesa 6.5.1
> > > >
> > > > I then tried upgrading to xorg 7.2 and Mesa 6.5.2. Again driver 
>1.7.2
> > >works
> > > > fine, but 1.7.4 locks up when running any acceletated apps.
> > > >
> > > > My system is an Acer 9410 laptop with Intel 950 chipset (video card 
>is a
> > > > 945).
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions on what I can try to see 1) why the driver is 
>locking up
> > >the
> > > > display and 2) how I can fix this?
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyone out there who has a similar configuration and has 
>this
> > > > driver working?
> > >
> > >Does using the option "Legacy3D" make a difference ?
> > >
> > >Alan.
> > >
> >
> >
>