Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:18:36 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D830, nVidia and FreeBSD-8/amd64 Message-ID: <200912151018.36607.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20091215023751.GA6418@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20091213191905.GA76785@osiris.chen.org.nz> <200912141046.27194.jhb@freebsd.org> <20091215023751.GA6418@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Monday 14 December 2009 9:37:51 pm Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:46:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Sunday 13 December 2009 2:19:05 pm Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > This is a general rehash of a problem that I've been having with my > > > Dell Latitude D830 with an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M internal graphics > > > card. I've been using the XOrg's "vesa" driver ever since something in the > > > code rendered the "nvidia" driver inoperable in 7-STABLE sometime mid > > > last year. With nVidia's new 195.22 (BETA) drivers, I had hoped that I > > > could bypass the problem. Unfortunately, I seem to be experiencing the same > > > problem as described in the following thread: > > > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142391 > > > > > > which appears to be implying that something in the kernel is > > > interfering with memory allocation. Would it be possible for someone > > > with deeper kernel-fu be able to take a look at this issue? > > > > Do you have a verbose dmesg available? > > I've attached a dmesg with a verbose boot. I hope this is what you're > looking for. Ok, can you grab the output of 'devinfo -r' and 'devinfo -ur'? I suspect that when the bridge allocates the prefetch resource range from the parent it is failing somehow. For a quick hack try something like this: Index: subr_rman.c =================================================================== --- subr_rman.c (revision 200359) +++ subr_rman.c (working copy) @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ count, flags, dev == NULL ? "<null>" : device_get_nameunit(dev))); want_activate = (flags & RF_ACTIVE); - flags &= ~RF_ACTIVE; + flags &= ~(RF_ACTIVE | RF_PREFETCHABLE); mtx_lock(rm->rm_mtx); -- John Baldwin
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