From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 22:23:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415301065677 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:23:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sterling@camdensoftware.com) Received: from wh2.interactivevillages.com (wh2.interactivevillages.com [75.125.250.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFB48FC12 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 174-21-99-21.tukw.qwest.net ([174.21.99.21] helo=_HOSTNAME_) by wh2.interactivevillages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOHwQ-000217-1m for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:15:39 -0700 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:23:45 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:23:45 -0700 From: Chip Camden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100614222345.GC21416@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <944932.60687.qm@web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <944932.60687.qm@web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Company: Camden Software Consulting URL: http://camdensoftware.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - wh2.interactivevillages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - camdensoftware.com Subject: Re: terrible mplayer performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:23:51 -0000 On Jun 14 2010 15:13, Neil Short wrote: > Ok. I'm stuck. Mplayer's performance is worse on this laptop than it is on my Toshiba running with a half-speed processor. I have attempted all the suggestions I can find re: getting the performance. > The video is slow - so it lags the audio by quite a bit. I keep getting "Your processor is too slow..." stuff. > > What to do? > > I built mplayer from ports (not package). > mplayer-1.0.r20100117_1 > > My computer is an HP Pavilion dv4 > > xorg.conf is set up to run the vesa driver. That's how X -configure set it up. I have no idea what graphics device is actually on this machine. > > dmesg shows: > Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Jun 7 10:53:01 MST 2010 > neshort@carmen:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CARMEN amd64 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (2127.92-MHz K8-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20652 Family = 6 Model = 25 Stepping = 2 > Features=0xbfebfbff ,PBE> > Features2=0x98e3bd > AMD Features=0x28000800 > AMD Features2=0x1 > TSC: P-state invariant > real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) > avail memory = 3892748288 (3712 MB) > ACPI APIC Table: > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 > cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 > ... > vgapci0: port 0x6050-0x6057 mem 0xd0000000-0xd03fffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 > agp0: on vgapci0 > agp0: detected 32764k stolen memory > agp0: aperture size is 256M > ... > ====== > > "What did you do?" the man holding the flashlight asked. > > "I put down a spider," he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could get away." > I have an i3 M 350 -- the intel drivers do not yet work for this chipset. It's the Intel HM55, probably. To verify, give us the output of pciconf -vl | grep vgapci0 The chip= portion of that has the PCI ID. Mine's 00468086. For now at least, I'm stuck on vesa. But mplayer seems to run fine for me. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com