Ati Rage 128

[Alex Deucher]

On 3/17/07, Slobodan D. Sredojevic <sredojevics at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'll try to give some feedback on Ati Rage 128 graphic card:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP
> 4x TMDS
>
> - One regression:
>
> I have noticed when using kernels from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 with xorg-x11-7.1
> and mesa 6.5 to mesa 6.5.1 , with this kernel setup:
> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y , CONFIG_DRM=y, CONFIG_DRM_R128=y , I used to get about
> 460 fps in glxgears.
> With xorg-x11-7.2 and mesa-6.5.2 with git-sources-2.6.21-rc3 kernel I get
> about 320fps. Can someone else confirm?
>
> - Suspend to RAM and resume when DRI is enabled:
>
> I have read at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRage128
> it is not implemented, yet. Is anyone working on this? My home desktop
> machine resume fine after suspend to ram only if DRI is disabled in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf using s2ram utility with "s2ram -f -a 1 -s" combination.
> Should I file a bug report for this at bugzilla.kernel.org and link it to
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7216 meta bug?
>
> - Freezes
>
> If I build r128 as kernel module or use "DRM Kernel Modules for X11" Gentoo
> package (x11-drm) I got freezes - that means after I start glxgears it
> freezes, I can still hear the music that is playing in the background but
> keyboard and mouse are dead. After hard reboot I see some messages in log
> and I think this is the same as in
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5562 report
> and #1 comment.
> If I include it (r128) into the kernel, DRI works. Can confirm for 2.6.19
> and later.
> This affects Fedora Linux Core 6 and Ubuntu 6.10 and also their most recent
> test versions ( FC7test2 and Feisty Herd 5) either during LiveCD boot or
> after installation (in which vesa driver was used).
>
> - Desktop effects with this card
>
> Is anyone working on adding AIGLX support for this card. It can't support
> desktop effects at the moment as stated here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx
>

AIGLX works fine on r128, however the hardware lacks support for NPOT
textures which are required for most fancy effects.

Alex