On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:23:03PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've got a Matrox Millenium G400, and recently installed a DVDROM drive. > Unfortunately, Xine drops too many frames to really watch anything > (mpeg & avi files play fine). > > I've been trying to tweak my video performance, and notice the following > errors in my X log: > > (==) MGA(1): Write-combining range (0xe6000000,0x1000000) > (II) MGA(1): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 > (--) MGA(1): 16 DWORD fifo > (==) MGA(1): Default visual is TrueColor > (II) MGA(1): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24 > (II) MGA(1): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864 > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > drmOpenDevice: Open failed > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > drmOpenDevice: Open failed > [drm] failed to load kernel module "mga" > (II) MGA(1): [drm] drmOpen failed > (EE) MGA(1): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > > Can anyone shed light on this? I'm not running devfs, don't know if > '/dev/dri/card0' is really supposed to be there or how it would get > installed. I'm running Sarge, update regularly. Any advice appreciated. > > Regards, > > PM > -- > Paul Mackinney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Paul, Have you used hdparm to improve the performance of the dvd drive? I have an ATI Radeon VE dual head setup with an LCD and a CRT. I get the same messages in the X log about it disabling DRI. I have done nothing to accelerate X, it is just the most recent from unstable. Recently I installed a dvd drive and I was getting skipped frames just like you until I improved the performance of the dvd drive using hdparm. See the man page for hdparm(8) or [1] for some tips on using hdparm. [1] http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html -- Jeremiah Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
