From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 03:39:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809E51065672; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:39:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1CC8FC0A; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:39:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so826098ewy.43 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:39:03 -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=n3V1dcASxIBIhP9E9Lu6PP6ybZ25bNcE2t3q9qr7FQA=; b=fKDo0K3rp/R+6YrixLgw+0v7K3hRnJAuNnxBIC3mrLGBj25dYY38Qjbnwxh1OqixF7 ceRTOkrg2hwfrNkBA91HuUncs8Viis0LqkOtbhay45ZeuD/SSE+KRWdcbKZLA1s5lbpq XcdiaCmoCA5zMUhoalLgktinBExKYBpnvJlck= 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=J+aCBjKxp6jbmjHtJHy+3qiwFMKvtn3JC/sZ5Aos66FtqQDSQu1BvcdfLYqa3loCS3 +h0d8EonpbCMZvjLUmn69aNWK33xnkcLc/DQb4mseaxax3uc+0FZjlJG+XeDIKN/of44 IcHcXofzjoL4WjHOCQwVpym2JHWadyO69k0aE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.120.7 with SMTP id s7mr461931ebc.69.1238125143800; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:39:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49CC43C4.7030905@swin.edu.au> References: <49CB70BD.3040607@boland.org> <1238086577.1792.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <49CC43C4.7030905@swin.edu.au> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:39:03 -0500 Message-ID: <179b97fb0903262039p4fadd5a1j11555b386d2847df@mail.gmail.com> From: Brandon Gooch To: Mattia Rossi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Michiel Boland , FreeBSD Current , Robert Noland Subject: Re: still problems with intel video X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:39:05 -0000 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Mattia Rossi wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:10 +0100, Michiel Boland wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi. I still have problems with a very slow display after logging out of >>> an X session and/or switching VTYs. The problem goes away if I add >>> hw.pci.enable_msi=3D0 to /boot/loader.conf. >>> >>> Last csupped Mar 26 09:49 CET. >>> >>> System is Dell optiplex 745. Has built-in Intel Graphics Media >>> Accelerator 950 >>> >>> Anything I can do to help solve this problem? >>> >> >> I'm going to try and work on getting better debugging info from the >> intel driver. =A0I don't have access to any newer Intel hardware at the >> moment, so testing is tricky. >> >> There is a tuneable for just msi on drm hw.drm.msi. >> >> robert. >> >> > > Yep, correct - here it is again - just had to log out of KDE, and after > logging in again, everything was slow as hell. > I didn't fiddle with the msi settings, just rebooted the machine, and > everything is fine again. > So there must be something that works the first time X is started, but up= on > restart stuffs up. Like some lock or reference which is not freed. > > Mat I'm working with my system right now with the tunable hw.pci.enable_msi=3D0 (set in /boot/loader.conf) and it's relieved me of this issue for the moment -- a real fix is being researched at the moment by Robert. I haven't had anything break in an obvious way by setting this tunable, but YMMV... -Brandon