Re: nouveau on G5 Macs

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This is with 64k page size.



Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 19:27:
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
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