On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Patrick wrote: > Forgot to put in those contacts this morning? :) :) > No I don't see what you are describing but I run my "powered by" 9000 > Pro on a 21" at 1280x1024, 24bpp. From your description it almost > seems like the refresh rate is too low. Have you tried lowering the > resolution to 1280x1024 and upping the refresh rates (if not done > automagically)? Well, it's at an 85Hz refresh right now, so I don't think it's too low. I'm very sensitive to low refresh rate flicker and this ain't it. :) > Off topic: since you have a Radeon 9000 Pro, can you please check > /var/log/messages for entries similar to the ones described in this > Red Hat 9 bugzilla report: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87761 Yeah, I've got 'em too. Apr 10 23:01:14 bubba kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on VIA Apollo KT133 @ 0x00000000 64 MB Apr 10 23:01:14 bubba kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for 0000,4000000 old: write-back new: write-combining Apr 10 23:01:14 bubba kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0 Apr 10 23:01:14 bubba kernel: [drm:radeon_unlock] *ERROR* Process 8639 using kernel context 0 Apr 10 23:01:14 bubba kernel: [drm:radeon_ioremapfree:mappings] *ERROR* Attempt to free NULL pointer Apr 10 23:01:14 bubba kernel: [drm:radeon_ioremapfree:mappings] *ERROR* Excess frees: 1 frees, 0 allocs I also get some "curious" messages on console whenever I exit out of X relating to the Radeon driver or DRM or something like that... (I'll check when I get home.) I'll add a "me too" to the report. > In either case can you please email me the exact brand/model > description of the 9000 Pro you have. ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. "Built by ATI" and in an ATI box. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0002 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) (rev 01) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at e5010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 pete
