radeon agpmode 4x hangs

[Gobbledegeek]

quote from this page:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Additional_options_for_the_radeon_driver
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By default, the open source radeon driver forces 1x AGP speed. Quote
from the developers:
"tuning to the highest speed possible has caused hangs on some boxes, with no
discernable pattern, so we default to 'slow but safe' whilst giving the option
to go fast if the user wants to try it."

So it loooks like a known issue to xorg developers with no workaround. :(
Thanks for the moral support. (:

Rgrds

On 7/18/06, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 01:15 +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote:
> > Hi
> >    Is  this very  old  and  widespread  problem  going  to be fixed
> > on amd64 anytime?
> > I have  the same problem with  my  radeon 7500.  I  get a partially
> > painted  screen  with  a frozen  system  at gdm login screen, with
> > 4x. With 2x, the  monitor jumps into powersave  mode and doesn't come
> > back  without a reboot.  System  is  7.0 current.
>
> If not setting AGPMode results in a working system, do that.  If setting
> AGPMode to anything other than the default helps you, that's a serious
> bug that needs to be fixed.
>
> --
> Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
> eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
>
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