Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:26:03 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PREVIEW] Nouveau on FreeBSD (Take 2) Message-ID: <20090427052602.GN1012@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1237680263.1938.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <1237680263.1938.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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Is there any chance of getting nouveau to work on a PCI
NV34 GeForce FX 5200? (not pci-e) I actually don't really care
about 3d unless I can use it to improve normal "2d" activity,
I'm just looking for an improved response above what the
nv driver gives me with XAA. Its a little sluggish but
sufficient for day to day activities.
When I try Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" it runs with XAA
anyway: (WW) NV(0): Option "AccelMethod" is not used.
When I try nouveau, it tells me:
(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
(EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] error opening the drm
I don't even know what drm I could try loading or if it
would help.
vgapci0@pci0:2:1:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x032210de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Nvidia Corp'
device = 'GeForce FX 5200 [NV34.3]'
class = display
subclass = VGA
Thanks for any advice, let me know if I can provide more information.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:04:23PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
Ok, this patch should work on NV50 chips also.
What you get is EXA and Xv.
You still need:
A recent -CURRENT or -STABLE.
git master of libdrm and xf86-video-nouveau.
This patch.
Things I've figured out since the last patch...
On NV50 class hardware you need to have a compositing manager running
for Xv to work. That means xcompmgr, metacity with composite enabled,
xfce (rumored to work as well, haven't tried). If your running Gnome
with metacity, open gconf-editor and go to apps->metacity->general and
check the composite box.
On NV40 class hardware, you don't need the composite manager. In fact
(at least with Xserver 1.6 which I'm running now), if a composite
manager is enabled, I'm seeing high cpu utilization from Xorg under some
circumstances. I don't think this is a drm issue, but still an issue.
For me, if I start a video using mplayer in an xterm, cpu is fine as
long as that xterm is the foreground window. If it is not the
foreground window, even if it isn't obscured I see the cpu utilization.
Disabling the composite manager makes everything fine.
http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-nouveau-032109.patch
robert.
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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