Re: [PREVIEW] Nouveau on FreeBSD (Take 2)

From: Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:35:35 -0500
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 03:21 +0300, Anonymous wrote:
> Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 00:15 +0300, Anonymous wrote:
> >> Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > 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.
> >> [...]
> >> >
> >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-nouveau-032109.patch
> >> >
> >> > robert.
> >> 
> >> - This error in Xorg.log is still present
> >> 
> >>       (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI] installation complete
> >>       (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [dri] unable to reference front buffer: -19
> >
> > Ok, update your libdrm... this was fixed in the last few days.
> >
> > robert.
> >
> 
> Oops, looks like libdrm installed here wasn't latest. Updated and this
> error is gone now.
> 
> >>   Should I ignore it?
> >> 
> >> 
> >>       info: [drm] PGRAPH_ERROR - nSource:info: [drm] PROTECTION_ERRORinfo: [drm] DMA_R_PROTECTIONinfo: [drm] , nStatus:info: [drm] 
> >>       info: [drm] PGRAPH_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Class 0x8297 Mthd 0x15e0 Data 0x00000000:0x00000000
> >>       error: [drm:pid11:nv50_pgraph_irq_handler] *ERROR* magic set 1:
> >>       error: [drm:pid11:nv50_pgraph_irq_handler] *ERROR* 	0x00408900: 0x80000000
> >>       error: [drm:pid11:nv50_pgraph_irq_handler] *ERROR* 	0x00408904: 0xfdb76b7b
> >> 
> >>   Should I ignore them?
> 
> Looks like this one is not fixed in r190296M. Look into logs below.

This is a fencing issue, I haven't ported the drm fence manager.  Do you
know what you are doing to trigger it?  I can't seem to make it occur
here...

> >> 
> >> - Launching `xcompmgr -a' is tricky. Most of the time it just leaves
> >>   screen in unusable state, it's not possible to switch to console or
> >>   move pointer. I want to help debug this one. Here are logs:
> >>   http://pastebin.com/m1ca3fc2f
> >>   http://pastebin.com/m579d358e

FWIW, I don't seem to have any trouble enabling / disabling composite,
so this may be a bug in git xserver or libraries.

robert.

> rebuild kernel, libdrm, xf86-video-nouveau, xserver just in case and
> reproduced the problem again
> http://pastebin.com/m2be24e75
> http://pastebin.com/m6c80e1e
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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