Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:43:43 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Gregoire <ebola@psychoholics.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org, "K.Wieland" <wieland.k@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] agp(4) for ULi M1689/nVidia nForce3 Message-ID: <200509211143.46225.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1127303390.17090.26.camel@S0106c0ffeec0ffee.su.shawcable.net> References: <200509151957.24837.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20050920195600.M92923@martymac.com> <1127303390.17090.26.camel@S0106c0ffeec0ffee.su.shawcable.net>
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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 07:49 am, Adam Gregoire wrote: > Well as it stands now I was fooling around with some options in my > xorg.conf, namely experimenting with enabling agpfastwrite, which > caused some kind of issue(blank screen) and heavy cpu(at least) > usage as passive cooling kicked in after a few seconds. Anyways I > was unable to kill X ala ctrk-alt-backspace and trying to switch to > vt0 would not work, nor would ctrl-alt-del to bring the machine > down nicely. So after I killed the power and rebooted I got the > panic back that I had before. .. the machine probes the gart but > fails the device_attach of agp0 returning 6. Further along the boot > as it tries to probe drm the panic happens; all I was really able > to get at this time was: > agp_get_info+0x87: movq 0(%r13),%rdi > > So after I got this, I tried to reboot again and the same thing > happens. So I decided to reset my BIOS to defaults to see if that > is what was actually making the error go away before(I thought > flashing my BIOS had something to do with it originally), to no > avail. What to do next ... I decided to boot off a windows drive I > have, got to the login prompt and told the machine to reboot, let > it boot back into FBSD and viola no panic(Interesting). To see if I > was just getting lucky I rebooted FBSD and again no panic. Okay so > at this point I provoked another system crash via enabling > agpfastwrite option, killed the power, reboot in FBSD and got the > panic again, rebooted FBSD and yet again a panic. I then boot into > windows hit the login screen and have the system reboot again into > FBSD and the machine came up with agp loaded fine and no panic. I > did this routine once more and had the same results. > > One thing I will try to do later is to provoke getting the machine > in a state where it will repeatably panic and at that point I will > power the system down and re-seat my video card to see if it has > the same effect as booting into windows and shutting down. > > If anyone has any ideas, questions or patches for me to try, get > back to me and I will be more then happy test out any theories or > patches you may have. AGPFastWrite is known to cause system instability for many chipsets. There's no measurable performance gain even if it worked. Jung-uk Kim > P.S. I apologize for my wording if I am not making sense here, I > have been up a long time. > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:59 +0000, Ganael Laplanche wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried the patch without drm support in the kernel. Again, I > > crashed my machine, this time at X startup. I have no more panic > > at boot time, neither do I have agp0 detected. I don't know if > > it's related, but I updated my BIOS to the latest revision as > > suggested by Adam Gregoire... > > > > Regards, > > > > Ganaël LAPLANCHE > > ganael.laplanche@martymac.com > > http://www.martymac.com > > Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. > > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > > From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> > > To: "Ganael Laplanche" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> > > Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org, "K.Wieland" <wieland.k@gmail.com> > > Sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:13:40 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] agp(4) for ULi M1689/nVidia nForce3 > > > > > On Monday 19 September 2005 04:56 pm, Ganael Laplanche wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I've just tested the patch, but unfortunately, it didn't work > > > > for me :( Kernel panic at bootup, with (nearly) this message > > > > : > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > drm0: <ATI Radeon if R250 9000> > > > > Fatal trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > ... and the system reboots :( > > > > > > That's really strange. > > > > > > > Let me know if you want me to make further tests... > > > > > > You don't have to compile DRM in the kernel. Xorg server will > > > automatically load it when it's needed. Please remove them > > > from the configuration. I just want to see if agp(4) works > > > without drm. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jung-uk Kim > > > > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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