Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:48:37 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DRI problems with ati/radeon on stable/7 r203425 Message-ID: <1265802517.8609.25.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20100210023558.GV391@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20100208172654.GA391@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <1265764746.8609.18.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20100210023558.GV391@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 18:35 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 07:19:06PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote: > > ... > > Are you under fairly severe memory pressure? > > .... > > The machine has 2GB RAM, so I doubt it: > > CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.40GHz (1196.48-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7 > Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > Features2=0x400<CNXT-ID> > ... > real memory = 2147360768 (2047 MB) > avail memory = 2091487232 (1994 MB) > > > As for the AccelMethod -- the laptop is fairly old; it's an amalgam of a > Latitude C840 & a couple of Inspiron 8200s; single-core i386 CPU > @2.4GHz. Video adaptor is a 64MB ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 > [Mobility FireGL 9000] rev 1; physical screen resolution is 1600x1200. Ok, what I was thinking was that any memory allocations that have M_WAITOK will sleep forever waiting for resources. If it is a pci based card, it might be waiting for 32MB of contiguous ram for the GART as well. I have a reworked scatter gather allocation that removes the contiguous requirement. robert. > Thanks. > > Peace, > david -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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