ATI Rage 128 Mobility very slow with 2.6.6 Debian kernel

[Jens Schmalzing]

Hi,

Jens Schmalzing writes:

> a user of my Debian kernel packages reported today that his Xserver
> was really slow when using the drm interface.  After a number of
> tries, I have been able to reproduce the problem - the XFree86.0.log
> seems to go in an endless loop logging the line
>
>  (EE) R128(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
>
> over and over again.  This does not occur with the module from the
> dri-trunk, btw.

Forget this message, right after I sent it I was able to solve the
problem by forcing the Xserver to access the card in PCI mode.

Regards, Jens.

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