I suspect screen tearing (as it's usually defined) is to be expected. Can you take a photo of what you're seeing, since I'm suspecting it's more than regular screen tearing? On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Ilia, > > I experience screen tearing for both 64k and 4k page size. > My iMac G5 has an nVidia Geforce FX 5200 Ultra GPU. > > Regards, > Jeroen > > Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 17:25: > > Which GPU do you have? The NV40 AGP board (GeForce 6800) works > > particularly poorly. However as long as you go with 4k pages (and > > there's no real benefit to 64k pages for most applications), basic > > things should work. I wouldn't recommend using a GL-based compositor > > though. > > > > Which distortion are you talking about? > > > > Cheers, > > > > -ilia > > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:10 AM Jeroen Diederen > > <jjhdiederen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have been trying to solve nouveau issues on my iMac G5 for ages. As > >> far as I can understand it, there is a problem with nouveau and page > >> size mapping. I tried both 64K and 4K page size kernels and the the > >> result is always distorted video. > >> There is an old To-Do list, which says "fix the page size mapping > >> problem on G5/64 bit for exposing fifo regs" on > >> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo/. > >> > >> Is there any chance that this bug will be fixed ? I am not a > >> programmer, > >> so I can't be of any help. > >> > >> Jeroen Diederen > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Nouveau mailing list > >> Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
