Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 14:16:57 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: meteor driver and recent stable Message-ID: <199601052216.OAA01054@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 1996 14:03:05 PST." <199601052203.OAA05966@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Okay, I will take a look and give it another whirl 8) Amancio >>> "Justin T. Gibbs" said: > > > >Howdy, > > > >I am having problems with the meteor driver crashing the system over here > >and I am also in touch with Jim Lowe one of the co-authors of the driver. > > > >Whats interesting is that previous old versions seems to also crash the > >system even thought right up to last nite I didn't have any problems > >at all with his driver. Is just after I supped last nite. > > > >Does anyone have a clue as to what was checkin recently to cause problems > >to devices such as the meteor pci video capture driver? > > > > Tnks, > > Amancio > > Boot with -v and see what the PCI burst len and latency timer values > are set to for the 2940. We never used to set them. Now we set > them if they were not initialized at POST. Take a look in > sys/pci/aic7870.c for details. My guess is that the 2940 is hogging > the bus and the meteor isn't happy about it. If this is the case, > I'm open to suggestions on how to come up with good defaults. > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > ===========================================
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