Re: Running Debian Lenny on PowerMac G5
2010/2/24 Tiresia Giuno <tiresiag@googlemail.com>:
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> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:58:05 +0100
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 00:04 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote:
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>> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:47:13 +0100
>> > Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>> > > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 20:14 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote:
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>> > > > (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 8x
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>> > > Does adding either of the following options to the xorg.conf
>> > > Section "Device" work around the video freezes?
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>> > > Option "AGPMode" "4"
>> > > Option "DMAForXv" "off"
>> > > Option "BusType" "PCI"
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>> > It looks like the Options you suggested did the trick - I could
>> > watch video for hours without any problems. I've tried to
>> > understand if one of those options is essential, but still I
>> > couldn't find it out.
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>> Note that you shouldn't specify all options together. One of them
>> should be enough, and I specifically ordered them from the least to
>> the most expected impact on performance.
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> Thanks again, specifing AGPMode it looks to solve the problem.
> I was quite lucky, so I never needed before to reconfigure my xorg.conf
> (even on oldworld apple machines). Sorry for the stupid question: Could
> you suggest a link where one can study different options for xorg (I
> gave always up when I was looking at the official web site)
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man radeon
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Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit)
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