From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 20 14:16:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B258D106566B; Wed, 20 May 2009 14:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f165.google.com (mail-bw0-f165.google.com [209.85.218.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32148FC27; Wed, 20 May 2009 14:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so445582bwz.43 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 07:16:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6W1nsRT+QacTesH0ryo0Tn1FyJvGr9HFPySO7uUs/7s=; b=wN8+VAsP8HgrFYUPfkj4BvFv4l0xtQIuQ8qD2w1vXz7YtzsHaB6OBG16nMqy1wHy7m c8W697gMwhH81fq5qia/7budD4xKHsOQWfUJiATV4yHCyzOmz7q0fUFQYGVHm2FvIk9X yePz321Wyhnr8wqubBaOPhctFZ8CVCm1d8S3Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aYW0wwDq229IrsnTUkfHAQ1e+ka6ly4/V4UOZfbsicDe0iFBgf/kYMzDbf1mE6/Mvt hSX/T1ensgituyK/dLd+DYBkQBsS9HMCisA9Luu+qhQnFpjjCrCbtowyzrfzu5oKL6yC K1z8a0VDOzIKZ8kCBS0yyFudaGGGvK93K14qc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.56.4 with SMTP id w4mr1316197bkg.25.1242828985503; Wed, 20 May 2009 07:16:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1242826891.1752.58.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <20090518222644.k2pez2x9q88o4k8g@webmail.1command.com> <3a142e750905182328m60439dfcgadd4c28ba037400e@mail.gmail.com> <20090518234011.k55bmqq3488kko8c@webmail.1command.com> <1242740785.1752.4.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090519101524.z0z98wnwg00wccsc@webmail.1command.com> <1242760122.1752.17.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090519125924.q79c5na0e888s8sk@webmail.1command.com> <1242773639.1752.40.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090519161031.oz51pawluss8wss0@webmail.1command.com> <1242826891.1752.58.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:16:25 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750905200716t318dfc30x77cfa2fa9a2478ac@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Robert Noland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:16:28 -0000 On 5/20/09, Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:10 -0700, Chris H wrote: >> > So, zapping is off by default now in 1.6.x. If you want it, add >> Option >> > "DontZap" "off". The cross hatch is also gone, that is what the >> -retro >> > option is supposed to do. The session leader in a failsafe twm >> session >> > is the left hand xterm. Typing exit in that window should exit the >> > session. >> >> DOH! Sorry. My bad. I have since determined that turning off hald && >> dbus >> improve performance. I built the X server with the hald option picked. >> But, when I bounced the box, and started an X session (with a WM), >> performance was improved. BUT. Performance pretty much sucks. I have 4 >> of these boards running with the onbord (mach64) video, and the mere >> 2Mb >> built in RAM. They run with better performance than does this one with >> (200Mhz less CPU) comparable RAM && this one has 64Mb onboard && a >> faster >> Gpu. But they also run 6.4-STABLE && xorg-6.9. >> So, I'm going to experiment by rebuilding the X server w/o the HAL >> driver - make option && untick HAL. Then portupgrade -fi xorg-server. >> >> I'll report back should there be any improvement. > > So, the use of hal or not shouldn't produce any performance difference. > It is only used to detect input devices kbd/mouse. > > One thing that I have discovered and I'm hoping for someone to send me a > patch, is that if you build xorg-server without hal support it doesn't > get linked to pthread libraries. This causes issues with libdrm on > Intel at least. Not sure what else may be impacted. I ignored this info first time, but I will ask now. Does this implies that libthr is listed in Xorg ldd(1) output? I use server build without hal support on 945GM(irq not MSI) and I do not experience problems with drm/dri/OpenGL/xv or whatever other protocol you name it. > There is also my nouveau patch that you could try. That should get you > EXA and Xv acceleration with the nouveau driver. Overall the reports > that I've been getting have been good. > > robert. > >> Thank you very much Robert, for all your time and efforts. > -- > Robert Noland > FreeBSD > -- Paul