Unhappy Xorg upgrade

[Robert Noland]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 02:08 +0000, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> > S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
> >> I thank you for your response. I've applied the patch to pci.c from
> >> kern/130957. Unfortunately there are no positive results. USB is still
> >> unreachable with X.
> >
> > Just following up to confirm that you are seeing exactly the same 
> > symptoms with USB and Xorg 7.4 as I see on my amd64 desktop running 
> > 7-STABLE from 00:00 UTC on this Wednesday.
> 
> I still see the USB symptoms with xorg-server port as of today -- forced 
> rebuild with libpciaccess also. So amd64 is still regressed -- USB is 
> totally unusable there after X is started. My theory was that somehow 
> Xorg was stomping on the USB controller registers on this machine. The 
> USB controller on this box is ALi, card=0x81561043.

Is your usb sharing interrupts with the video card?

Does the issue occur if you aren't using a usb mouse?

robert.

> My i386 laptop (IBM/Lenovo T43) is not affected, and USB mice work just 
> fine there.
> 
> Obviously it's difficult to check what Xorg is actually doing to the 
> registers on the box w/o a PCI bus analyzer, and of course due to normal 
> decoding, those cycles probably won't be seen on the backplane itself as 
> it sits behind a bridge; I haven't fully read what libpciaccess is doing.
> 
> I skimmed patch-src-freebsd_pci.c. I wonder if this code may be stomping 
> on the USB controller in some way (i.e. how it frobs the BARs).
> 
> According to src/tools/tools/pciroms, the only PCI devices on this box 
> with ROM BARs are mskc0 and vgapci0.
> 
> (I also wonder if it's possible to guarantee that the window at 0xC0000 
> is always going to be available, even in the amd64 case.)
> 
> cheers
> BMS
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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