Re: Xorg fails on ATI after update (mmio aperture)
Hi guys,
don't fight over kernel modules :) le'ts just get the thing working again.
Michel Dänzer wrote:
But in any case, using fbdev should always work. The "mach64" driver
>may be broken because it's more or less orphaned.
Except for the part where Riccardo says that the same userspace works
with an older kernel.
Exactly, that "proof" means that the changes comes from the kernel or
that the driver needs updating to work with the new kernel.
Compiling kernels is a bit tight on this iBook. What road can i follow
to help you track down changes? Can I get easily a dpkg package of
intermediate kernel versions to bisect things?
Are there changes in the kernel configuration itself? We go from 4.7.0-1
to 4.9.0-2
If you can point me to an intermediate version I'd like to try it!
Anyway, I looked at Riccardo's original post again and noticed that his
xorg.conf has options disabling all hardware acceleration of
xserver-xorg-video-mach64 anyway. In that case there's no benefit in
using that vs xserver-xorg-video-fbdev.
Not all acceleration, but most of it - that is the best I could get
about a year ago withotu having very strange display issues.
I remember this was quite a still bette than "accel off" or fbdev which
is quite horribly slow. I'd love to nable some of it again and gain
again some speed which was usable about 2 years ago.
Of course the goal is to get most features and acceleration working (again),
Riccardo
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