Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:36:32 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Bradford <andrew@bradfordtg.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg nv 0 videoram and insufficient memory for mode Message-ID: <1238049392.1828.111.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20090326042350.GF21707@bugaboo.gv.shawcable.net> References: <20090326042350.GF21707@bugaboo.gv.shawcable.net>
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--=-lguhTvjhdszzcYrc1JtF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 21:23 -0700, Andrew Bradford wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I'd like some help with an issue I'm having with Xorg on FreeBSD 7.1 amd6= 4. X seems to ignore all videoram on my secondary video card. I have 3G o= f system RAM in the machine, could it be related to memory barriers? >=20 > The machine specs are as follows: (onboard) GeForce 6150, PCI-E GeForce 6= 600. I am using the "nv" driver. >=20 > Up until last week, the system was working happily. Both screens working = great without issue. Upon reboot the PCI-E video card does not get properl= y detected by X. In the Xorg log file, is "NV(0): VideoRAM: 0 kBytes" (fol= lowed by "insufficient memory for mode" for all video modes). >=20 > The sudden appearance after a reboot may have simply been a driver that h= ad been built but not yet loaded. I had been upgrading the system the prev= ious week. I tested out the hardware with some live cds to make sure the c= ard isn't dying. >=20 > I've looked high and low on the web, and the only posting I can see that'= s relevant is this one: > http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=3Dxorg&a=3D2008-02&t=3D6547682 > from last year. He appears to have the same problem as I do. The only r= esponse points to a pciaccess mail thread, indicating that HW access in Xor= g was being reworked. >=20 > The thread is from last year, has the issue not been resolved yet? Are t= here any workarounds? The only other driver I can use would be this Nouvea= u one I heard about on freebsd-x11, but that would involve another system u= pgrade, and it is currently marked as broken. The Vesa driver doesn't work= on my cards, and nvidia won't support amd64... >=20 > I tried rebuilding the nv driver and xorg-server with various versions fr= om ports, with the same issue. I just finished rebuilding with ports from = Feb 1 -- same thing. >=20 > I've attached Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf.new. The config file was generate= d using X -configure (and cleaned because nv detected all pci devices in th= e system). The issue is in fact the switch to libpciaccess, along with a lot of changes to Xserver. The issue is due to legacy vga handling. The issue is being discussed a bit more lately, but no resolution is at hand. Most modern cards have a way to deal with this, but it isn't a generalized solution. So, for right now, multiple cards generally don't work, for linux, solaris or us... robert. > Help! >=20 > Thanks! > Andrew >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-lguhTvjhdszzcYrc1JtF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknLInAACgkQM4TrQ4qfROM1GgCghsZTjqjMxa1uHmQV/hqu3UE/ f68AnjPBg9M2LX38NyZlabV+r5ZmCFK+ =qBJj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lguhTvjhdszzcYrc1JtF--
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