From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jun 10 18:12:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA18635 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA18627 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03440; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970610181120.27697@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:11:20 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Bernie Doehner Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree 3.3 and my Wincast problems.. GOOD NEWS References: <19970610025545.56957@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Bernie Doehner on Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 10:04:53AM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bernie Doehner scribbled this message on Jun 10: > > > > well.. I just did... I'm still running 2.2.1-R, but I did run the latest > > bt848 driver on XF3.3... but it still crashed... it did take a while > > longer to lock up the bt946 (my scsi controler) than before... before > > just a small amount of disk activity would lock up the bus, but not > > it took it a ls -lR a while (about 5+ seconds) before it locked up... > > Try smallest window PLEASE, if you haven't already. Makes a world of > difference here. are you talking about 320x240?? because if you are, that is what I did my testing... it never was stable enough to try it at 640x480... and anything less than 320x240 is a little too small.. :) hmm... I tihnk I might know what fixed your problem.. they improved the video drivers for 3.3 so that less time was spent on the pci bus... that way other transactions weren't colliding... once the new changes get into fxtv, I'll see if that helps any... > I also used ls -lR for testing. I could ls -lR /usr while running fxtv in > smallest window and NO lockups. I also ran it for 1 hour after that and > still no problems. > > > right now I'm looking at upgrading to 2.2.2-R and see if that will help > > any... if I had another scsi controler, I'd try that... hmm. I could > > dig up an old NCR 53c400 based controler, I'll see what I can do... > > 2.2.2-R didn't fix anything here, but than I am IDE bound. hmm... probably should find a databook for the bt946 to make sure every thing is proper... basicly my bt946 gets wedged.. and FreeBSD can't abort the command in the controller... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD