On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:36:26PM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Joseph Fannin wrote: > > > Conversely, I see just the opposite behavior (on an i386 machine) -- if > > r128.o is loaded before or without agpgart.o, hardware accel hangs the > > machine. When agpgart is loaded before r128, r128 prints some extra > > agp-related stuff to the console when it initializes -- and then hw accel > > works for me. > > In the case of PowerPC systems, the UniNorth AGP controller support is > still incomplete, and has some continuing "issues". I have noticed that, > at least on PowerPC systems with Rage128 boards, DRI likes 16bpp depth, > but 24bpp will throw up a black window, and proceed to hang the system > hard. > > Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN
FWIW, I should have said "hardware accel hangs the X server" rather than
"machine". I was able to get control of the console back if I ssh'd in and
killed the process asking for the 3d accel (usually a screensaver in my
case) as long as I used I different signal -- I think it was -QUIT.
I should have guessed that agp didn't work on PPC from the context.
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