From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 14:03:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA05975 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05966 Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:03:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601052203.OAA05966@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: Host localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: meteor driver and recent stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 1996 13:33:09 PST." <199601052133.NAA00607@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 14:03:05 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >Howdy, > >I am having problems with the meteor driver crashing the system over here >and I am also in touch with Jim Lowe one of the co-authors of the driver. > >Whats interesting is that previous old versions seems to also crash the >system even thought right up to last nite I didn't have any problems >at all with his driver. Is just after I supped last nite. > >Does anyone have a clue as to what was checkin recently to cause problems >to devices such as the meteor pci video capture driver? > > Tnks, > Amancio Boot with -v and see what the PCI burst len and latency timer values are set to for the 2940. We never used to set them. Now we set them if they were not initialized at POST. Take a look in sys/pci/aic7870.c for details. My guess is that the 2940 is hogging the bus and the meteor isn't happy about it. If this is the case, I'm open to suggestions on how to come up with good defaults. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================