Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:12:06 +0300 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PREVIEW] Nouveau on FreeBSD Message-ID: <86mybf73jt.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1237527331.1777.516.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <86d4cbflqc.fsf@gmail.com> <1237616346.1758.17.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 09:12 +0300, Anonymous wrote: >> Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> The module works fine but not very usable on my >> 9600GT. One thing to note is that NoAccel works *slower* than without >> nouveau.ko present at least on my box. > > That doesn't make any sense... If the module isn't loaded, or X isn't > attached to it nothing is changed. Yep, I heard same answer from nouveau devs a while ago. But smth in xf86-video-nouveau works differently when NoAccel explicitly set in xorg.conf and module is present. For instance, here is a diff between w/o module and module+NoAccel @@ -170,17 +170,18 @@ (II) NOUVEAU(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (==) NOUVEAU(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 -drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) -drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) -drmOpenDevice: Open failed +drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK) drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 -drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) -drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) -drmOpenDevice: Open failed -[drm] failed to load kernel module "nouveau" -(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. -(EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] error opening the drm -(!!) NOUVEAU(0): Failing back to NoAccel mode +drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK) +drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 +drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 +drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK) +drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 8 +drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0 +(II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.2 +(II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded. +(II) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] nouveau interface version: 0.0.12 +(--) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] kernel modesetting not available (--) NOUVEAU(0): VESA-HACK: Console VGA mode is 0x3 (II) NOUVEAU(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 @@ -193,8 +194,10 @@ (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.99.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 +(**) NOUVEAU(0): Option "NoAccel" "true" (==) NOUVEAU(0): Randr1.2 support enabled (==) NOUVEAU(0): Using HW cursor +(**) NOUVEAU(0): Acceleration disabled (--) NOUVEAU(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE0000000 (--) NOUVEAU(0): MMIO registers at 0xF6000000 (II) NOUVEAU(0): Initial CRTC_OWNER is 0 @@ -374,6 +377,9 @@ [3] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x10000) was already clear +(II) NOUVEAU(0): Allocated 128MiB VRAM for framebuffer + offscreen pixmaps, at offset 0x20000000 +(II) NOUVEAU(0): AGPGART: 512MiB available +(EE) NOUVEAU(0): Unable to allocate GART memory (==) NOUVEAU(0): Backing store disabled (==) NOUVEAU(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called. @@ -464,7 +470,7 @@ (**) Mouse0: (accel) acceleration profile 0 (II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 5, hw.model is 0 (II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse -(WW) fcntl(8, F_SETOWN): Inappropriate ioctl for device +(WW) fcntl(9, F_SETOWN): Inappropriate ioctl for device (**) Option "CoreKeyboard" (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events (**) Option "Protocol" "standard" So, with module and NoAccel scrolling in xterm is awfully slow here on 9600GT on (II) NOUVEAU driver 0.0.10.20090318.3e7fa97 and I'm unable to unload nouveau.ko. > > I have NV50 working now, with EXA and Xv. > > robert.
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