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Thanks for your replies. Building the radeon driver into the kernel |
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seems to work, but trying to make it a module does not (for me anyway). |
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It makes me wonder if nouveau could work in a similar fashion. |
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My X crashes were hardware problems. The early DEC Personal Workstation |
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has a DMA problem with its 64-bit PCI slots. Some well-behaved cards |
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work fine, apparently. This Visiontek card doesn't make that list. |
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This is the first time I've had objective proof. Switching to a 32-bit |
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PCI slot fixed my crashes. |
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Once I found out those 64-bit slots were ordinary PCI. there was no |
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reason to put the vido card there anyway. If they were PCI-X (not |
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express), I could have gotten a 66MHz bus at least, but mine are fixed |
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at 33. Boo hoo. |
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My PNY GeForce 5200 did not cause problems in the bad slot. Maybe the |
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nv driver is too timid to cause a similar problem. Maybe the hardware |
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is less troublesome. The question is moot. |
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I let X default to my 17" non-widescreen LCD monitor's 1280x1024 and |
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24-bit color. My first successful start of glxgears yielded about |
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60fps. I'm happy just to see those gears turn at all. |
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Now I need to figure out something better for my fb.modes file. The |
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framebuffer console text is tiny at 1280x1024. |
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Adios, DW |