Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:57:14 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Richard Kolkovich <sarumont@sigil.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD4550 DRI issues Message-ID: <1254527834.25163.154.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20091002010109.GA8828@divination.portal.sigil.org> References: <20090926001158.GA42914@divination.portal.sigil.org> <1253925689.2065.81.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090926045706.GB42914@divination.portal.sigil.org> <1253977337.2048.17.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <1253993801.2048.295.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090926194802.GA67832@divination.portal.sigil.org> <1254001621.2048.431.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20091001021855.GE36488@magus.portal.sigil.org> <1254392190.98309.750.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20091001153307.GF36488@magus.portal.sigil.org> <20091002010109.GA8828@divination.portal.sigil.org>
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On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:01 -0500, Richard Kolkovich wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:33:07AM -0500, Richard Kolkovich wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 05:16:30AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > > > I've spent a fair amount of time digging through the mmap and memory > > > allocation bits in the kernel, but haven't found anything that looks > > > wrong. What I don't understand is, why this doesn't effect all or at > > > least all i386 systems. So, I think it almost has to be chipset > > > specific. .... Well, I just went back and found one of the prior reports > > > of this. It looks like that (assuming it is the same cause) was on an > > > intel 945 chipset running 7.2-RELEASE i386. Have you considered running > > > amd64? Your i7 is certainly worthy of it and I would be curious to see > > > if the problem exists when running amd64 also. > > > > > > > Go figure...my first Intel board/CPU, and I stumble across something like this. :P > > > > I had considered trying amd64 after I saw your setup was amd64. I've never had too much reason for > > running amd64, but I could justify it now that I'm using zfs. ;) > > > > I may give amd64 a shot later today and let you know if that helps. > > i386 + mtrr disabled doesn't do jack. > > Fresh amd64 install, installed xf86-video-ati and ran your DRM test. Contents? Empty. Ok, that seems like good news then... > I'm building xorg right now to make sure the displays mirror this result...I'll let you know. > > I just thought about this, though. Do you think something in my make.conf could be causing this > problem? I don't think I've ever tried on a kernel and world I did not build. I only have > CPUTYPE=core2 set (that would affect kernel/world compiling). It's possible... It is generally not recommended to mess with cpu flags... I used to use them as well, but I ran into a few cases where I needed to re-use a disk and didn't have compatible hardware handy, so I just use the default -O2 -pipe now. robert. > -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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