Re: X leaking memory with tdfx driver (ds3v1)
On Die, 2003-04-15 at 04:29, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Jeroen van der Vegt wrote:
> > I have a PC with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP video card, and until the previous
> > release of it, XFree 4.3 worked fine. Since Xfree86-4.3.0ds3v1 however, X
> > leaks a lot of memory. I have to restart X every 2 or 3 hours, as it is
> > using all of my 256 MBs of memory. It doesn't crash or anything, but
> > everything gets really ssslllooooowwwww.
> > Also, DRI spport seems broken all of a sudden. The X log doesn't give any
> > erros or warning about this, all GL stuff seems to load fine. But glxgears
> > for example doesn't use any hardware.
> > If I can get a Xfree86-4.3.0ds3v2 package from somewhere, I'd be happy to
> > try it, perhaps this has been fixed already?
>
> I do have a patch in ds4 (unreleased right now, give me a couple of days
> to get it synced on all the architectures) to take care of an Xlib
> double-malloc, maybe that's the issue?
>
> As for DRI, when you're using XFree86 4.3, you need either a 2.5.x
> kernel, or to build the xlibmesa4-drm-src package.
That's only true for Radeons. I don't think the DRM minor version has
changed for other drivers, in particular not for tdfx where the DRM is
minimal.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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