[OT] Re: Radeon DRM lockup

[J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>]

Just my $.02 -

The voodoo cards worked fine for me -
Accelerated 3D was fast and reliable -
but alas, 3dfx is no more.

I tried an ATI radeon card, which worked OK
in some scenarios, but would reliably lock the
box up solidly (no ping, no sysrq) the moment
I would start a game of wolfenstein.

Since switching to nvida cards there've been no
lockups, and performance has been great - this
on 3 different systems over the past year or so.

I always grab the NVidia driver tarball and compile
against the current kernel - I've seen way too
many horror stories with folks using the binary
rpms that nvidia also provides.

Joe

Nicholas wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 00:34, Louis Garcia wrote:
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>>I'm experiencing many hard lockups when playing 3D games on my RH beta
>>system. I have a Radeon 7500 card and i850 chipset. Does the latest AC
>>kernels have more recent DRM code? How can I get the latest cvs code for
>>radeon cards?
>>
>>--Lou
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>Dude different setup i use ALI but my radeon 7500 locks up too when
>trying to do 3d (ANY 3d iincludoing glxgears) any solution ANYONE has
>would be greatly appreciated.
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