From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 04:14:18 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 BA632106566B; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6D38FC14; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so175486eyf.7 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:14:17 -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=41te9G8YmlNuP/sPypeJDMaJ0J2zRsOsHPpZw+CmM54=; b=VFY8fTDWat5UIdfmrDNus3YLSOGrrBzNogSeIJyhd0Lbw98H9u35BGPX+cDpdmPEnW vXEsw66lMN5AzAMow99+KtQwq09YgLSCpf3JU+lJLyb35vPNrtfYJ/jvPZ2hqZ6Qv4Sh y/sp5A2zsCq966rH2mCNwCZY2+nGztp/1HqmY= 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=N0FxTU6PrLZnaoqiDBsDmf4Vz/rctPxBho/tYFJ821Hj6jv8EqlBkAlbpdKdYunad7 NgWQFHklc4QIUlVzSCJB7Zu9VIZ0Ko3NikLUzSKmFimdXLOG8P6AgRo2jHbwYLk2cGbK U5IBwSbVVlHP5nWV8anxDEH5PIXz7pxGqzPjE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.56.9 with SMTP id e9mr1273091eba.49.1238127257030; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:14:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1238126285.8491.2.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <49CB70BD.3040607@boland.org> <1238086577.1792.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <49CC43C4.7030905@swin.edu.au> <1238126285.8491.2.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:14:17 -0500 Message-ID: <179b97fb0903262114i511ec294ief17475d673e70c9@mail.gmail.com> From: Brandon Gooch To: Robert Noland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Michiel Boland , FreeBSD Current , Mattia Rossi 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 04:14:19 -0000 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Robert Noland wrote= : > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:11 +1100, 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 Accele= rator 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 th= e >> > 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 >> upon restart stuffs up. Like some lock or reference which is not freed. > > There is a problem with restarting X on at least some Intel chips... > This is a different issue, I was trying to look into that a little bit > yesterday, but it kinda works on this 915 that I have, so I haven't > isolated what is getting messed up. =A0Again, vt switch, suspend/resume > are in the same ballpark, restart is not. > > robert. > >> Mat >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" >> >> >> > -- > Robert Noland > FreeBSD > I have been switching to the vty at which I started X in order to terminate X. If I try to terminate X while I'm in it, it just "hangs" -- I have to switch to the vty, ctrl-c it, wait, then blindly key in a reboot to get my system back up. IIRC, this started happening after I upgraded to Xorg 7.4. I thought that Mattia might be doing the same thing as a work-around for the freezing intel-driven display thing, thus the X-to-vty switch "fix" of disabling msi... -Brandon