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SubjectRe: 2.6.16-rc3: more regressions
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Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 16:27 -0700 schrieb Jesse Allen:
> On 2/13/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >
> > > The one thing I have not yet been proven wrong for is that this PCI id
> > > is the only one we have in this driver for an RV370.
> >
> > It definitely is an RV370, you're right in that. I'm too lazy to actually
> > see if the other entries that claim to be RV350's really are RV350's.
> >
>
> Well a while back, I hacked in the pci id for my Xpress 200M (5955),
> which is basically an RV370 with no dedicated vram. I did the same
> thing and claimed an RV350, which is the closest model. This allowed
> the radeon module to load. When I startx'ed and DRI was allowed to
> load on it, it locked up. So I never sent in the patch. I believe
> the person who sent this one in originally seemed to indicate that it
> worked, and I believed it if he had an X300 and my problem was having
> the IGP version. But now having this reported, I'm pretty sure it is
> the same problem. RV370 doesn't seem to work as an RV350.

The Xpress200 chips have a completely different GART implementation.
Thus the driver can't even send commands to the command processor and
that's why X locked up on you when DRI was enabled. This has nothing to
do with the Xpress200 being (almost) an RV370 or not.

Regards,
Felix

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