From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeroen Diederen Subject: Re: nouveau on G5 Macs Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:08:38 +0200 Message-ID: <45fa1029cf5f0610e4a3e1d65bb26b32@zonnet.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Sender: "Nouveau" To: Ilia Mirkin Cc: nouveau List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org Hi Ilia, I experience screen tearing for both 64k and 4k page size. My iMac G5 has an nVidia Geforce FX 5200 Ultra GPU. Regards, Jeroen Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 17:25: > Which GPU do you have? The NV40 AGP board (GeForce 6800) works > particularly poorly. However as long as you go with 4k pages (and > there's no real benefit to 64k pages for most applications), basic > things should work. I wouldn't recommend using a GL-based compositor > though. > > Which distortion are you talking about? > > Cheers, > > -ilia > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:10 AM Jeroen Diederen > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have been trying to solve nouveau issues on my iMac G5 for ages. As >> far as I can understand it, there is a problem with nouveau and page >> size mapping. I tried both 64K and 4K page size kernels and the the >> result is always distorted video. >> There is an old To-Do list, which says "fix the page size mapping >> problem on G5/64 bit for exposing fifo regs" on >> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo/. >> >> Is there any chance that this bug will be fixed ? I am not a >> programmer, >> so I can't be of any help. >> >> Jeroen Diederen >> _______________________________________________ >> Nouveau mailing list >> Nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau