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ATI R300 Gallium3D Driver Seeing A Big Performance Fix After Being Regressed For Years
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Originally posted by esmth View PostWhat I really want fixed is the ability to use KMS on the old PowerPC CRT macs. My eMac has a Radeon 9600 and when KMS loads the screen goes black.
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Originally posted by schwarzygesetzlos View PostDid you try recent kernels? I have a G4 MDD and a G5 running with Radeon 9600/9800 cards. Even current 5.1.x or 5.0.x kernels work fine (or even better?) with KMS. On some card<->machine combinations the GPU locks up and resets when reaching the desktop. In this case you can use the kernel boot parameter "radeon.agpmode=-1" as workaround.
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Originally posted by schwarzygesetzlos View PostTrue. But in this case you have to worry about issues Mac-flashed cards (originally being PC-BIOS) can have.
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Originally posted by HyperDrive View PostWell, I tried it a couple of weeks ago, and the system came up. Just a black screen with a white ATi logo and a graphics card, with a flashing red power cable. I guess the BIOS (Open Firmware) Forth code correctly initialised the card, but it won't let the system boot without the power cable. 😉
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