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 > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> 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 at lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
I suspect screen tearing (as it's usually defined) is to be expected. Can you take a photo of what you're seeing, since I'm suspecting it's more than regular screen tearing? On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> wrote:> > 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 > > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> 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 at lists.freedesktop.org > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
This is with 64k page size. Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 19:27:> I suspect screen tearing (as it's usually defined) is to be expected. > Can you take a photo of what you're seeing, since I'm suspecting it's > more than regular screen tearing? > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jeroen Diederen > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> 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 at lists.freedesktop.org >> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1967.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 37859 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20200622/c43b92e6/attachment-0003.jpe> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1968.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 38762 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20200622/c43b92e6/attachment-0004.jpe> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1969.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 22540 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20200622/c43b92e6/attachment-0005.jpe>
another picture Ilia Mirkin schreef op 2020-06-22 19:27:> I suspect screen tearing (as it's usually defined) is to be expected. > Can you take a photo of what you're seeing, since I'm suspecting it's > more than regular screen tearing? > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jeroen Diederen > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > <jjhdiederen at zonnet.nl> 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 at lists.freedesktop.org >> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1970.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 29429 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20200622/56702acd/attachment-0001.jpe>