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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:23:26
Message-Id: 201107161723.00187.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 15:42:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 07/13/2011 03:25 PM, Mick wrote:
3 > > [...]
4 > > Is the [r600] gallium stable now? I found it was locking up a kde
5 > > desktop with effects enabled and set it back to classic.
6 >
7 > It's been made the default driver in Mesa now. So I guess that means
8 > it's considered stable. But for me, both classic and gallium can hang
9 > the machine. At least with Gallium I know how to fix it though:
10 >
11 > Section "Device"
12 > Identifier "HD4870"
13 > Driver "radeon"
14 > Option "EnablePageFlip" "FALSE"
15 > EndSection
16 >
17 > in an xorg.conf.d file.
18
19 Unfortunately it doesn't help. If I enable compositing in KDE the screen
20 locks up (with horizontal artifacts/tearing) and I get this in dmesg:
21
22 [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] No buffer for z buffer !
23 [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !
24 [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] No buffer for z buffer !
25 [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !
26 [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] No buffer for z buffer !
27 [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !
28 [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] No buffer for z buffer !
29 [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !
30
31 Google mentions a bug in mesa.
32 --
33 Regards,
34 Mick

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