radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

Gobbledegeek gobbledegeek at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 07:21:49 UTC 2006


I tried toggling  most options one at  a time - no luck. Thanks.

Rgrds

On 7/18/06, Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid.homeunix.org> wrote:
> On 17/07/2006 21:15, Gobbledegeek wrote:
> > After  a long search and  no  solution in  sight,  I  have  to ask here -
> > many people  have  reported  this problem, the xorg  developers
> > deliberately default to  agpmode  1x because they  know it hangs
> > unpredictably otherwise.  The problem  has  been  around  for a few
> > years now.
> >
> > Am  I stuck with  agp mode  1x  for  good?   I'm  sorry I  brought  a
> > radeon  in  the first  place.  Pay for mobike  but  ride a
> > bullock-cart!
>
> Do you have "AGPFastWrite" "on" in xorg.conf by any chance? My radeon
> card works well with AGP 4 but locks up when fast writes enabled.
>
> That's Radeon 9000 Pro, agp and drm in the kernel, FreeBSD 6.1-Stable,
> Xorg, xorg.conf:
>
> % Section "Device"
> %         Identifier  "Card0"
> %         Driver      "radeon"
> %         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
> %         BoardName   "Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000]"
> %         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> %         Option      "AGPMode" "4"
> %         Option      "EnablePageFlip" "on"
> % EndSection
>
> HTH,
>
> Karol
>
> --
> Karol Kwiatkowski  <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
> OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc
>
>
>
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Rgrds
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