[ltp] Re: Xorg, DRI etc

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/8/06, Nate <nrs27@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> > 9000, m9 are rv250
> > 9200, m9+ are rv280
> > really the only difference is AGP 8x support and a few on chip bug fixes.
> My glxinfo output gives:
>
> [nate@blackbox ~]$ glxinfo|grep render
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20041207 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
>
> The only warnings I get in Xorg.0.log are now
> (WW) RADEON(0): [dri] limiting video memory to one aperture of 65536K
> (WW) RADEON(0): [dri] detected radeon kernel module version 1.22 but
> 1.23 or newer is required for full memory mapping.
>
> Would changing something to get AGP 4x (?) yield any desktop
> improvement? Also, how about bios settings like AGP aperture size, or
> enabling AGPFastwrite?

enabling AGPfastwrites will probably just lock up your computer.  You
can enable AGP 4x mode by adding this to the device section of your
config:
Option "AGPMode" "4"
but I doubt it will affect performance much.

>
> Well, I am going to try these things, but am in the middle of something.
> I will report results when I can afford to close X.
>
> -Nathan
>