Re: [Dri-devel] radeon7500 + irongate agp chipset: are the problemsbeing worked on?

2002-02-18 Thread Andrew Schwerin
I have attempted using the mem=nopentium option. I'm still getting lockups. I noticed the last couple of times that the lockup occurred simultaneously with a key press (but not mouse movement). This may be a red herring, though. Noticeably, /var/log/messages reports receiving the kernel messag

Re: [Dri-devel] radeon7500 + irongate agp chipset: are the problems being worked on?

2002-02-18 Thread José Fonseca
On 2002.02.17 21:15 Andrew Schwerin wrote: > I'm running with a Radeon VE and having a similar problem. All apps that > > use DRI eventually (within 10 minutes, often less than 1 minute) lock up > the system. I've got an A7A266. Contrary to the experience of the > users, > I've had more troubl

Re: [Dri-devel] radeon7500 + irongate agp chipset: are the problemsbeing worked on?

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2002-02-17 at 12:50, Tilman 'Trillian' Sauerbeck wrote: > > Anyway, I updated my DRI CVS directory but the Radeon DRM module works > even worse: Every GLX app freezes my system now (e.g. running glxgears > - Quake3 freezes in the main menu, and the animated Quake logo isn't > displayed c

Re: [Dri-devel] radeon7500 + irongate agp chipset: are the problems being worked on?

2002-02-18 Thread Tilman 'Trillian' Sauerbeck
On 18 Feb 2002 12:48:41 +0100 Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Son, 2002-02-17 at 12:50, Tilman 'Trillian' Sauerbeck wrote: > > > > Anyway, I updated my DRI CVS directory but the Radeon DRM module works > > even worse: Every GLX app freezes my system now (e.g. running glxgears > >

Re: [Dri-devel] radeon7500 + irongate agp chipset: are the problems being worked on?

2002-02-18 Thread Tilman 'Trillian' Sauerbeck
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:43:19 -0800 Lance Stringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is an issue with AGP on Athlon chipsets, have you tried passing > the mem=nopentium option to the kernel on boot? For more information > about the issue with AGP go to the Gentoo linux site at > http://www.ge

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 7500 instability]

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-02-13 at 09:38, Kamil Toman wrote: > > I think this is only a symptom of the chip locking up, causing the DRM > > to run out of buffers. I wish the problems which actually cause these > > were logged. ;( > > I see, okay I tried to insmod with full debug. From one session where I > we

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 7500 instability]

2002-02-18 Thread Kamil Toman
On Po, 2002-02-18 at 12:56, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > This log doesn't even show the radeon_freelist_get error; the X server > waits in vain for the CP to go idle. Yes, the radeon_freelist_get error is probably another thing. > I don't see anything bad leading up > to that, but I don't know the

Re: [Dri-devel] Pseudo DMA?

2002-02-18 Thread Frank C . Earl
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:33 am, Keith Whitwell wrote: > I haven't had a good look at security on either of these cards, but it's > definitely worth doing, both to find out if we're doing too little and if > we're doing too much. I've been looking at the i810 programmer's guide trying to u

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Wolfenstein on r128

2002-02-18 Thread Dieter Nützel
Keith Whitwell wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > On Son, 2002-02-17 at 18:08, Marc Dietrich wrote: > > > > > > Wolfenstein crashes after playing the intro at line 494 in > > > r128_texstate.c with an "assert t" failed message. > How do other drivers handle the same point? Latest tdfx trunk an

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Wolfenstein on r128

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Paul
Dieter Nützel wrote: > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > On Son, 2002-02-17 at 18:08, Marc Dietrich wrote: > > > > > > > > Wolfenstein crashes after playing the intro at line 494 in > > > > r128_texstate.c with an "assert t" failed message. > > How do other drivers hand

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Wolfenstein on r128

2002-02-18 Thread Dieter Nützel
Brian Paul wrote: > Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > On Son, 2002-02-17 at 18:08, Marc Dietrich wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Wolfenstein crashes after playing the intro at line 494 in > > > > > r128_texstate.c with an "assert t" failed mes

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Wolfenstein on r128

2002-02-18 Thread Michael
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:32:29AM -0700, Brian Paul wrote: > Where can I get Wolfenstein from? I thought it was an Id game > but I don't see it on their website. ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com has the demo & linux runtimes. The main site is http://www.activision.com/games/wolfenstein -- Michael.

[Dri-devel] R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Surda
Dear co-developers, Several months ago I noticed that even if I have working DMA, R128PutImage still eats lots of CPU, up to 26%, depending on video size. Several weeks ago I complained about this already, at that time it seemed to be a problem with aviplay or SDL. But since then I was able to re

Re: [Dri-devel] Pseudo DMA?

2002-02-18 Thread Keith Whitwell
"Frank C. Earl" wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:33 am, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > I haven't had a good look at security on either of these cards, but it's > > definitely worth doing, both to find out if we're doing too little and if > > we're doing too much. > > I've been looking at

[Dri-devel] Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:03:29PM +0100, Peter Surda wrote: > Dear co-developers, > turn "autoquality" off in the config and while playing the file, right-click, > choose properties and slide the slider. With mplayer, use -pp 0 or -pp 4. -pp 0 means no postprocessing > > Zdenek's (aviplay mai

[Dri-devel] Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 19:03, Peter Surda wrote: > > The best problem description I can give you is this like this: when the player > is doing nothing for some time after returning from calling XvShmPutImage, top > shows X doesn't eat any CPU. However, if it DOES do something (e.g. if I run > a m

[Dri-devel] Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 19:18, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > I believe this is what is going on: > > Movie players usually wait for for XFree operation completition by calling > XSync. Thus when XSync returns to the user space program there is assumption > that all XFree operation has been finished a

[Dri-devel] Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
> My first question is: Can you trust top? Or could it be that CPU time > from the client gets accounted to X? It doesn't make too much sense that > whether the client 'does something' has influence on the amount of CPU X > uses, does it? Well I've told Peter that XServer should be eating somethi

[Dri-devel] Re: [GATOS]Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On 18 Feb 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 19:18, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > > > I believe this is what is going on: > > > > Movie players usually wait for for XFree operation completition by calling > > XSync. Thus when XSync returns to the user space program the

[Dri-devel] Re: [GATOS]Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Surda
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:04:29PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > But I still don't understand why _X_ should hog the CPU: [cut] > Could it be that X is waiting for the engine to become quiscient ? So if > you scheduled a DMA transfer already it has to busy wait for the card to > finish. Whi

[Dri-devel] Re: [GATOS]Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Surda
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > This must have been introduced roughly in November. I remember it worked > > wonderfully right after Michel and I wrote the DMA patch in September, aviplay > > was able to eat 99% and X ate nothing. I remember now this isn't a hard

[Dri-devel] Today IRC meeting is starting now

2002-02-18 Thread José Fonseca
Today IRC meeting is starting now at irc.openprojects.net #dri-devel. Regards, José Fonseca _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Dri-devel mailing list

[Dri-devel] Meeting log for 2002-02-18

2002-02-18 Thread Leif Delgass
My xchat log for today's meeting is attached. -- Leif Delgass http://www.retinalburn.net dri-devel_meeting-20020218.txt.gz Description: dri-devel_meeting-20020218.txt.gz

Re: [Dri-devel] Pseudo DMA?

2002-02-18 Thread Frank C . Earl
On Monday 18 February 2002 12:07 pm, Keith Whitwell wrote: > The i810 has a security model that makes insecure commands in batch buffers > into noops. Unfortunately there is a hole in the security model: you can > emit a batch buffer with blit commands in it that blit insecure commands > onto t

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >> A player then does XSync, so that I can actually see the picture appear >> on screen, > >This could be where X uses all the CPU. While waiting for the CCE to go >idle, it can't do much but busy loop. (The DRM uses a loop with udelay() >actually; see r128_do_cce_idle() in r128_cce.c) Can't th

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Wolfenstein on r128

2002-02-18 Thread Dieter Nützel
Dieter Nützel wrote: > Brian Paul wrote: > > Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > > > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Son, 2002-02-17 at 18:08, Marc Dietrich wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Wolfenstein crashes after playing the intro at line 494 in > > > > > > r128

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Wolfenstein on r128

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Paul
Dieter Nützel wrote: > > Dieter Nützel wrote: > > Brian Paul wrote: > > > Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > > > > > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Son, 2002-02-17 at 18:08, Marc Dietrich wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wolfenstein crashes after playi

[Dri-devel] Complain and request for Mach64 binaries a la Gatos

2002-02-18 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
Hello all Just tried to build mach64 branch. Got an error: make[4]: Entering directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/sis' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../../../../../../lib/GL/dri/drm/sis_drm.h', needed by `sis_alloc.o'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/

[Dri-devel] Re: [GATOS]Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 20:47, Peter Surda wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > A player then does XSync, so that I can actually see the picture appear > > > on screen, > > This could be where X uses all the CPU. While waiting for the CCE to go > > idle,

[Dri-devel] Re: [GATOS]Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread R C
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:21:57AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 20:47, Peter Surda wrote: > It probably didn't work without. ;) I think when DMA was used for > XvPutImage, but not the CCE yet for 2D, then a Sync didn't wait for the > data transfer to actually finish. So it

Re: [Dri-devel] Complain and request for Mach64 binaries a la Gatos

2002-02-18 Thread José Fonseca
Sergey, On 2002.02.19 00:46 Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > Hello all > > Just tried to build mach64 branch. Got an error: > > make[4]: Entering directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/sis' > make[4]: *** No rule to make target > `../../../../../../lib/GL/dri/drm/sis_drm.h', needed by `sis_

Re: [Dri-devel] Complain and request for Mach64 binaries a la Gatos

2002-02-18 Thread Gareth Hughes
Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > Hello all > > Just tried to build mach64 branch. Got an error: > > make[4]: Entering directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/sis' > make[4]: *** No rule to make target > `../../../../../../lib/GL/dri/drm/sis_drm.h', needed by `sis_alloc.o'. > Stop. > make[4]:

Re: [Dri-devel] Pseudo DMA?

2002-02-18 Thread Frank C . Earl
On Monday 18 February 2002 01:07 pm, Keith Whitwell wrote: A followup here... I'm looking at the i810 documentation and the source tree now. > The i810 has a security model that makes insecure commands in batch buffers > into noops. Unfortunately there is a hole in the security model: you c

Re: [Dri-devel] Complain and request for Mach64 binaries a la Gatos

2002-02-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:50:36PM -0800, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote: > > Hello all > > > > Just tried to build mach64 branch. Got an error: > > > > make[4]: Entering directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/sis' > > make[4]: *** No rule to make target > > `../../../.

Re: [Dri-devel] Pseudo DMA?

2002-02-18 Thread Keith Whitwell
"Frank C. Earl" wrote: > > On Monday 18 February 2002 12:07 pm, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > The i810 has a security model that makes insecure commands in batch buffers > > into noops. Unfortunately there is a hole in the security model: you can > > emit a batch buffer with blit commands in it

Re: [Dri-devel] Pseudo DMA?

2002-02-18 Thread Keith Whitwell
> Ugh... Ok, I see, I understand. What a shame. Really, it is- the driver as > it stands ends up being SLOWER than a mach64 under Utah-GLX. Yes, Utah-GLX > was less secure, but to be so much slower as to have the same gears framerate > with a PIII-600 as I got with a PII-450 on a supposedly

[Dri-devel] Re: [GATOS]Re: R128PutImage eating too much CPU, round 2 :-]

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Surda
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:21:57AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Why is it so more difficult to do this correctly with CCE when it worked > > without? > It probably didn't work without. ;) I think when DMA was used for > XvPutImage, but not the CCE yet for 2D, then a Sync didn't wait for the > d