The "radeon" driver currently is misdetecting some AGP cards as PCI cards in Fedora Core 1 and later builds, and in RHL 9 current erratum. RHEL3 "radeon" driver is immune, and should work more like the stock RHL 9 driver did as far as AGP/PCI autodetection are concerned. XFree86-4.3.0-45 in rawhide, and now also available via yum/ftp on my ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable location contains new code I've implemented to autodetect AGP and PCI hardware in a generic way using the PCI and AGP specs as a guide, rather than twiddle hardware specific doodads. I'd like to get as many Radeon users as possible to test the new XFree86 release on Fedora Core 1. Users of Red Hat Linux 9, RHEL 3 or other builds who want to test it also, should instead just download the individual driver files I've uploaded separately to: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-45/drivers-i386 ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-45/drivers-ppc ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-45/drivers-x86_64 You need both the ati_drv.o and radeon_drv.o files, and can just copy them into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers on x86 and ppc, or /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers on AMD64. Be sure to back up the original driver files *first* if you do this, so that you can restore them if for any reason the driver explodes or whatever. So far, I've had 6 volunteer testers, and 6 reports of proper operation including on x86 and AMD64, and using both AGP and PCI Radeon cards, so it looks good. I'm now posting this here to get wider spread testing, in hopes this stupid autodetection problem is solved for once and for all. ;o) To test it, once the new release is installed, or the new driver files dropped into place, restart XFree86 completely, and reboot the computer entirely in order to reset the Radeon to it's default power-on state. Once X starts up, examine your new X server log file, and you should see a message somewhere indicating one of the following: AGP radeon detected or PCI radeon detected The message displayed should match your particular hardware properly. If it doesn't, I want to know so we can troubleshoot together. Please reply to this message on-list, both with a "it (works properly|doesn't detect right) for me on my Radeon nnnn (PCI|AGP) card...." with any useful details. If this works, DRI should work now on both PCI and AGP Radeon by default on x86, AMD64, and ppc (although it's still experimental on PCI Radeon). Also, some users have reported performance losses with Fedora Core 1 on Radeon, which has been a surprise to me, since most people report performance _gains_. I believe this might be caused by their AGP cards being detected as PCI cards in the Fedora Core 1 radeon driver, and they end up unknowingly using DRI over pcigart instead of DRI over AGP - hence the performance hit. So, if you've experienced a performance hit with Fedora Core 1 on AGP Radeon, please test this new X release out, and see if the numbers come up there. Anyone who has filed related bug reports about any of this, please update your bug report with new information and wether or not the problems you had are solved with the new driver. I'm hoping this solves various problems that have been reported, that were kindof vague and more or less not reproduceable by me before. Feel free to also pass the drivers on to other people, including users of other Linux or BSD distributions. Should work across the board. TIA -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
