On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:49:01AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:01 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > > I just merged drm (Direct Rendering) from HEAD. > > > > - Support for latest Intel chips > > - Support and fixes for many AMD/ATI chips r500 and below > > - Support AMD/ATI IGP based chips (rs690/rs485) > > - Lots of code cleanups > > - Lots of other fixes and changes since the existing drm > > is 2+ years old > > > > If you are experiencing a "garbled" screen with certain pci/pci-e based > > radeons, I have another patch in HEAD that isn't included yet. > > I decided to go ahead and fully sync to HEAD, so this should be resolved > as well. This added: > > - Use bus_dma to allocate scatter/gather pages for pci GART. > This fixes "garbled" screen issues on pci based radeons. > - Prevent drm from attaching to secondary devices even if they > have the the same pci id.
Do cards on the PCIE bus still need the agp device? It seems my r535 (radeon X1650Pro) on the PCIE bus can allocate a GART without it. I have the agp module loaded, but there is no /dev/agpgart device. But if I try to unload the module, it says 'can't unload file: Device busy'. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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