Re: benh vs xf42
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 17:56, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing new problems with the most current
> benh kernels? Here the changes in the last week have broken
> the ability to use dri/agp on a PowerMac G4 sawtooth with 1st
> generation Uninorth motherboard. The glxgears program freezes
> the X server and the console completely which hasn't happened
> before.
Have you tried without AGP? Isn't it a problem of XFree86 4.2 vs 4.1
rather than the benh tree?
> Also, I find that the current benh kernel causes even
> more problems when using Branden's XFree86 4.2.0 test packages.
> In that case, X presents a distorted display (only the bottom
> half is rastered) and fails to bring up the gdm login box.
This is a bug in the r128 and radeon drivers,
http://www.penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/patches/ati-indirectBuffer.diff
is a workaround. The radeon driver has been fixed correctly in DRI CVS.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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