Hello Joe and everyone:
Thanks for you answer. I want to apologize, now that I reliased that the original message appeared 3 times (I thought the first trials had failed since I wasn't a subscriber). Well, Joe, The 2D bugs I notice are in the KDM screen. KDE itself seems to work ok but I didn't test it for a very long time. The background of the KDM screen and its widgets are not refreshed as they should so the result is a complete mess. As you sugested I indeed get Feb 20 04:49:26 localhost kernel: [drm] Initialized r128 2.2.0 20010917 on minor 0 Feb 20 04:49:30 localhost kernel: [drm:r128_cce_indirect] *ERROR* process 1902 using buffer owned by 0 Feb 20 04:49:38 localhost last message repeated 104 times on my kernel logs. Process 1895 is X, process 0 is perhaps the kernel ? These messages appear when X is started, not at crash time. The crashes as I said are X server crahses not complete system crashes, the mouse survives but the clicks are not handled neither keyboard events. The crashes happen with mpeg and DVD (mpeg2) movies and don't happen with avi, maybe because of the different image formats that the codecs produce wich are mapped into different video memory areas, probably there are bugs only handling some formats. To make X crash it is enought fo move the video window around a little bit or sometimes you can just wait and it'll hang by itself. I don't have any problem switching from console to X and back. Well I can say now that the situation is as bad or worse than before, before one couldn't use bttv with dri, now one can't use video with dri and can't use kdm with dri. As I said disabling dri Xv doesn't crash anymore but exhibits the problems I complained about in the previous mail (which again appear to be DVD only) that started happening with XFree 4.1. What is exactly the relation of XV extension and dri ? (there is nothing about that in `man Xv`) Maybe I did something wrong, but all I did was upgrade X from mdk rpms and compile the drm module, as sugested at dri.sf.net. I assumed my 2.4.8 kernel would do. Is that wrong ? Thanks Gustavo Homem On Wednesday 20 February 2002 02:22, you wrote: > I'm using XF4.2+Rage128 with problems as well. > I also am happy to see xawtv+DRI work! > > I think I had some Xv problems before switching to > the current CVS, but I had bigger problems. > Text video consoles became inaccessible frequently, > and occasional 2D acceleration bugs, usually when > moving a long scrollbar. The 2D bugs > used to lockup X (KB+mouse dead). I also got > random hangs when closing a window, but then CPU > use goes to 100% and pointer is alive, so it's > a different problem. > > I did another CVS update two days ago and recompiled. > There are now no more lockups, > but VT text terminals still die frequently, > and 2D drawing bugs still happen. > > Maybe this is related to your drawing bugs. > DO you see this in your logs when DRI is enabled? > [drm:r128_cce_indirect] *ERROR* process 2865 using buffer owned by 0 > > Do you ever lose the VT text consoles? > > Joe Krahn > > Gustavo Homem wrote: > > Sorry, the first time I sent this message I wasn't subscribed so I guess > > it didn't arrive. > > > > Thanks > > Gustavo > > > > --------------------------- > > Hello everyone: > > > > I am having serious trouble with XFree. I have a rage 128 video card. I > > was using XFree 4.1 from mdk 8.1 and the Xv extension was malfunctioning > > for DVDs (was ok for other movies). It would eat too much CPU so a lot of > > frames were dropped (tested with xine, vlc and mplayer), for example xine > > would take around 45 % and the X server about 45% using Xv output. > > > > I upgraded to XFree 4.2 rpms from mandrake in hope to have this problem > > solved since it was working perfectly on XFree 4.03 from mdk 8.0. > > > > X complained then about drm modules beiing old, so I downloaded the > > latest one from dri.sf.net , compiled and instaled the module at > > /lib/modules/ .... > > > > The result was as follows with dri enabled: > > > > 1 - Now bttv no longer freezes the system if used with dri enabled > > (hooray) 2 - The KDM login screen is completely messed (widgets are > > garbaged, not drawn properly) > > 3 - This is the weird part: Xv is messed, the colors don't match the real > > ones, they are completely changed and there is an horizontal strip with a > > diferent color variation with xine and a lot of garbage with mplayer, X > > freezes a short time after switching to and from fullscreen (except for > > the mouse). Strangely during the time before X freezes there are no > > framedrops but they come back with dri disabled. > > > > What is exactly the relation of Xvideo and dri ? I never needed to have > > dri enabled to have smooth XVideo before (it wasn't even available at > > first), my computer has played DVDs with Xvideo since the first xine > > versions with gatos drivers. Did this change with XFree 4.1 ? I also > > don't know what is causing the 1,2,3 problems and I'd be glad if someone > > could help. > > > > Thanks a lot > > Gustavo Homem -- "Todas as generaliza��es s�o inv�lidas , incluindo esta" - L�gico an�nimo _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
