nv problems on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE for AMD64

Chris Radlinski radlinskic at acm.org
Thu Jan 11 14:42:21 PST 2007


Thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure what that means.  Do I have a bad card?

I'm going to add another condition to the while loop so it doesn't loop
indefinitely and see what happens.


On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:35, Stephane Marchesin wrote:

> Chris Radlinski wrote:
> > I've made some progress on this.  I wrapped these while loop calls in 
> > calls to xf86Msg.  Looking at the logs, I've determined that the first 
> > while loop is the problem.  The driver starts it and never returns.  
> > It will successfully complete the loops numerous times but eventually 
> > it will get stuck in the first one and hang.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me what:
> >
> > while(READ_GET(pNv) != pNv->dmaPut);
> >
> > is supposed to be doing?
> >
> It's waiting for the fifo to be processed by the card. So your card is 
> stuck.
> 
> Stephane
> 
> 
> 
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