From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wilson Subject: Re: [REGRESSION, i915]: Periodic stalls with 2.6.36-rc2 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:53:14 +0100 Message-ID: <89k83a$9ectm4@azsmga001.ch.intel.com> References: <20100825191506.28438.qmail@stuge.se> <8u3s8d$jd3e65@orsmga001.jf.intel.com> <20100825233315.3881.qmail@stuge.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [143.182.124.21]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE879E756 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:53:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100825233315.3881.qmail@stuge.se> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Peter Stuge , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:33:15 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Hi again, > > Chris Wilson wrote: > > > In general, Xv performance with KMS leaves me with a feeling that > > > something is not quite right in terms of playback, both with mplayer > > > and vlc. But while movies are nice, this stalling issue is more > > > important. > > > > That should now be fixed in -intel, > > Sounds good! I'd love to test. Which branch/commit is that? I just > pulled and am using 68a5ad4. > > mplayer -vo gl or gl2 works but uses sw rendering and is very slow. Master with -vo xv should be good, if it doesn't hang. > Incidentally, apropos the backlight commit in xf86-video-intel, it > seems like the driver always sets the backlight to 0. Whenver I start > X, backlight goes to minimum. I can crank it up with Fn+Home, but if > I restart X then it goes back down again. > > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness is always accurate, showing 0 after X > starts. That wasn't meant to be pushed. :( I was working on rectifying lack of backlight controls in on T61 and trying to reduce the number of pieces of code trying to accomplish the same thing through different means. I thought that work was contained on the T61... -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre