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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com, Mark v Wolher <trilight@ns666.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>,
	Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>,
	jesper.juhl@gmail.com,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, rlrevell@joe-job.com, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Re; system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:29:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136240983.8570.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601020020.12190.peter.missel@onlinehome.de>

On Llu, 2006-01-02 at 00:20 +0100, Peter Missel wrote:
> Grabdisplay causes (roughly) twice the traffic. Overlay mode runs the TV 
> stream straight into the graphics card, peer-to-peer, while grabdisplay 
> streams into RAM, lets the CPU read from there, scale, and push into the 
> graphics card.
> Pure overlay mode also produces zero CPU load.


Grab display also stresses the main memory bus and bus arbitration logic
which caused problems on some older chipsets many of which handled
overlay mode fine. Equally some other older chipsets couldn't get
PCI<->PCI right but worked for main memory.

BT8x8's are very good for finding chipset problems.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-02 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-30 14:05 system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing Trilight
2005-12-30 14:11 ` Ochal Christophe
2005-12-30 14:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-30 15:52   ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 16:37     ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 16:47       ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-30 17:14         ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 18:30           ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-30 19:22             ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 20:24               ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-30 20:58                 ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 21:15                   ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 21:30                     ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 21:35                       ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30 21:47                         ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 21:51                           ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30 21:57                             ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 22:00                               ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30 22:05                                 ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 22:11                                   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30 22:16                                     ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 23:11                                       ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-30 23:42                                         ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-30 23:56                                           ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-31  0:20                                             ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31  0:27                                               ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-31  0:42                                                 ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31  0:51                                                   ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-12-31  0:54                                                     ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 10:31                                                       ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 11:08                                                         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-31 11:40                                                           ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 11:49                                                             ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-31 12:46                                                               ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 15:18                                                                 ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 15:22                                                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-31 15:34                                                                     ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 15:51                                                                   ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 16:34                                                                   ` Sami Farin
2005-12-31 16:48                                                                     ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 17:02                                                                       ` Sami Farin
2005-12-31 17:26                                                                         ` Mark v Wolher
2005-12-31 22:01                                                                       ` Sami Farin
2006-01-01  2:26                                                                       ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 13:06                                                                         ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 14:47                                                                           ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 17:47                                                                             ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 18:38                                                                               ` Jiri Slaby
2006-01-01 18:49                                                                                 ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 19:01                                                                                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-01-01 19:12                                                                                     ` Jiri Slaby
2006-01-01 19:37                                                                                       ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 23:20                                                                                         ` Re; system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing Peter Missel
2006-01-02 22:29                                                                                           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-03  0:19                                                                                             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-01-01 18:49                                                                                 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-01-01 18:54                                                                                   ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 20:49                                                                                     ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-01-01 21:38                                                                                       ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-01 21:41                                                                                         ` Lee Revell
2006-01-01 22:01                                                                                           ` Mark v Wolher
2006-01-25 12:46                                                                                 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-01-01 15:14                                                                           ` Sami Farin
2005-12-31 11:23                                                   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-31 11:31     ` Jesper Juhl

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