On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Mattia Rossi <mrossi_at_swin.edu.au> wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:10 +0100, Michiel Boland wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi. I still have problems with a very slow display after logging out of >>> an X session and/or switching VTYs. The problem goes away if I add >>> hw.pci.enable_msi=0 to /boot/loader.conf. >>> >>> Last csupped Mar 26 09:49 CET. >>> >>> System is Dell optiplex 745. Has built-in Intel Graphics Media >>> Accelerator 950 >>> >>> Anything I can do to help solve this problem? >>> >> >> I'm going to try and work on getting better debugging info from the >> intel driver. I don't have access to any newer Intel hardware at the >> moment, so testing is tricky. >> >> There is a tuneable for just msi on drm hw.drm.msi. >> >> robert. >> >> > > Yep, correct - here it is again - just had to log out of KDE, and after > logging in again, everything was slow as hell. > I didn't fiddle with the msi settings, just rebooted the machine, and > everything is fine again. > So there must be something that works the first time X is started, but upon > restart stuffs up. Like some lock or reference which is not freed. > > Mat I'm working with my system right now with the tunable hw.pci.enable_msi=0 (set in /boot/loader.conf) and it's relieved me of this issue for the moment -- a real fix is being researched at the moment by Robert. I haven't had anything break in an obvious way by setting this tunable, but YMMV... -BrandonReceived on Fri Mar 27 2009 - 02:39:05 UTC
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