Re: "Wavey" X with Radeon 9000 Pro?

[Pete Toscano <pete-shrike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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