At last I found someone with the same problem... :^)
I have a "wonderful" Hewlett Packard Vectra VL6/233 Series 7 with the same card,
and it kept crashing every time Xfree 3.3.2 tried a BitBlit operation (at least
I think so...): really a bad crash (control-alt-del ineffective, only power
cycle let me out) reminding me of good old Windows95.... :^)
I solved this by tweaking the file XF86Config. I added the line:
Option "noaccel"
to the SVGA driver configuration (it is actually already there, you have only to
uncomment it).
Everthing OK now? Yes, but... goodbye to acceleration!!! :^(
I tried also:
Option "no_bitblt"
this disables only the blitter (less effect on performance) but it didn't work
on my machine: I hope it will solve the problem at least on your PC.
You can find much more options to try in the README.cirrus file.
*** More help request ***
I'm still struggling with another problem: my card has 2 MB of RAM. It works
well at 65K colors at 800x600 and 1024x768 with Windows: I can't make it work
with XFree at the same resolution/color depth.
The best resolution I got is 1024x768 with 256 colors.
If I try to configure it for 65K colors Xconfigurator lets me do it. When I
start X, however, I can't go furhter than 800x600. If I try to switch to
1024x768 I get a garbled screen (looks like it looses the vertical sync, or
tries to interlace...)
I enclose the output from my xinit command for 256 colors and 65K colors... is
anyone able to help me??
Thanks
Rick
************ This is for 256 colors ************
(**) SVGA: videoram: 2048k
(--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87
(--) SVGA: clocks: 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01 85.23 90.00 95.02 100.23
(--) SVGA: clocks: 108.03 109.77 120.05 126.00 130.06 135.00 150.34 168.24
(--) SVGA: clocks: 188.18 210.68 229.09
(**) SVGA: Option "noaccel"
(**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Display width padded to 1024 bytes.
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 250.000 MHz
(**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 65.000, clock used = 64.981
(**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.500, clock used = 31.499
(**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.991
(**) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) SVGA: Generic SpeedUps selected (Flags=0x30)
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Using linear framebuffer at 0xfc000000 (4032MB)
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: 1310720 bytes off-screen memory available
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Using hardware cursor
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Using memory-mapped I/O at address 0xFECE0000
(**) SVGA: clgd5465: Internal memory clock register set to 0x14
(**) SVGA: clgd5465: Approximate DRAM bandwidth for drawing: 507 of 572 MB/s
************ This is for 65K colors ************
(--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5465
(**) SVGA: videoram: 2048k
(--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87
(--) SVGA: clocks: 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01 85.23 90.00 95.02 100.23
(--) SVGA: clocks: 108.03 109.77 120.05 126.00 130.06 135.00 150.34 168.24
(**) SVGA: Option "noaccel"
(**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Display width padded to 2048 bytes.
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 170.000 MHz
(**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 65.000, clock used = 64.981
(**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.500, clock used = 31.499
(**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.991
(**) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Using linear framebuffer at 0xfc000000 (4032MB)
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: 524288 bytes off-screen memory available
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Using hardware cursor
(--) SVGA: clgd5465: Using memory-mapped I/O at address 0xFECE0000
(**) SVGA: clgd5465: Internal memory clock register set to 0x14
(**) SVGA: clgd5465: Approximate DRAM bandwidth for drawing: 442 of 572 MB/s
> Recently installed RedHat 5.1, so far so good..
> but my card (CL-GD 5465) can't be found in Xconfigurator, so
> I have tried both using CL-GD 5464 as well as unlisted card and given it the
> specs.
> But... if I manage to get X up and running, it eventually crashes and
> nothing works.
> I suspect it's the problem is with the graphic card, since if I have a shell
> open, the last line in it gets garbled.
> X always crashes, it's just a matter of time.. it's rather frustrating :p.
> Any ideas, comments, anything at all are very welcome!
> Thanks
> Mike
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