retitle 281286 xserver-xfree86: document AGPMode, AGPFastWrite, EnablePageFlip options as expert, dangerous tag 281286 + upstream # Documentation issues are "minor". severity 281286 minor thanks On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:52:01PM -0500, Slaven Peles wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I reported this problem as a bug just to have it > documented somewhere. I spent long hours trying to figure out if > something was wrong with hotplug or USB kernel modules, only to find out > that problem came from changing an XFree86 configuration option. I hope > that by posting it on Debian mailing list I might save somebody some > troubleshooting time. Okay. Well, Google will definitely get to it now. :) > Perhaps it would be a good idea to put in X documentation that options > such as AGPMode, AGPFastWrite and EnablePageFlip are experimental and may > cause unpredictable problems when nondefault values are used. Presently, > X documentation does not warn a curious user like me that these are "deep > magic" options and should be used with caution. I agree, and I am repurposing your bug report for that, if you don't mind. > It may be very well that in my case my system simply does not support > AGPx4 speed. In the actual Dell advertisement is says explicitly that it > does, but how much you can trust that? Is there a way to check what is > the speed AGP supports? The 'lspci' does not give me any information > about that. I do not know how to gather this information. > Also, is it possible that this may be a BIOS problem? I talked to people > who had exactly the same laptop, but they experienced quite different > problems than me. The only difference was in BIOS versions. It seems that > whenever Dell releases a new BIOS version, it introduces new problems, > and sometimes solves some of the old ones. So, my educated guess would be > that this happens due to faulty BIOS. Does that make any sense? It sounds very plausible. Several bugs reported against XFree86 over the years have actually been due to hardware or BIOS problems. > Anyhow, thanks for your time and the great work that you and the rest of > the X Strike Force do. Thank you for your report and followup! -- G. Branden Robinson | I'm a firm believer in not drawing Debian GNU/Linux | trend lines before you have data branden@debian.org | points. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Tim Ottinger
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