Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:18:33 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PREVIEW] Nouveau on FreeBSD (Take 2) Message-ID: <1240852713.4395.4.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20090427052602.GN1012@egr.msu.edu> References: <1237680263.1938.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090427052602.GN1012@egr.msu.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 01:26 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: > 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. This should work I think... I only have NV40 and NV50 pcie cards to test with though. You need to apply the patch to your kernel tree and make sure that libdrm and xf86-video-nouveau are up to date with latest ports. robert. > 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. > > -- > Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> > FreeBSD > > -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkn16OkACgkQM4TrQ4qfRONE/wCfTLYcETUTl0Rfr4zJWQ/uuYlL K+4Aninpgy6SZ3x02sIhFYkI0Uj+cHBH =QgNh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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