Re: Asus Pundit (sis 651) : High CPU usage for X in mplayer - are these values sane ?

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Hi,

I've tried reduceing memory to 32M in bios.

That particular warning goes away, but high cpu problem persists.

Short answers:
> > cat /proc/mtrr >
> > reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> > reg01: base=0x1c000000 ( 448MB), size=  64MB: uncachable, count=1
> > reg02: base=0xdc000000 (3520MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg03: base=0xe8000000 (3712MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg04: base=0xe1400000 (3604MB), size=   4MB: write-combining, count=1
>
> Is that from before or after starting X?
>
After starting X.

> Do you have a console framebuffer driver running?
>

Probably is running from bootsplash feature integrated in Suse 9.0

>  > (WW) SIS(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xe8000000,0x4000000)
>
> The reason for your problem is that, for some reason, MTRR setup fails,
> although it obviously is supported by your kernel. At the moment I
> cannot think of a reason for this.
>
> Does this warning message go away if you change the amount of video RAM
> to, say, 32MB in the BIOS setup?

Yes, it goes away.

>
> (BTW: Why do you set "forcecrt1" to "false" when it appears that you
> neither have a TV, LCD or secondary VGA connected?)
There is note in example-config that one can override automatic detection
with this one. I've commented it our, but no difference.

I'm attaching new Xfree.log in case it helps.

Thanks in advance for all help,

Robert.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Winischhofer" <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:12 AM
Subject: Re:  Asus Pundit (sis 651) : High CPU usage for X in
mplayer - are these values sane ?


> Robert Rozman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sending files requested to give proper help. Like I said it seems
like
> > Xv is not working (I get lower cpu if I set -vo x11 in mplayer).  I
suspect
> > that software scaling is going on, but don't know what to do to correct
this
> > ( I get CPU for X 40-50% and for mplayer or mythtv frontend about 20%).
I
> > have Asus pundit, with P4 2.4 G.
> >
> > I'll appreciate any help, since this is the only major problem left...
> >
> > I have:
> >
> > uname -a -> Linux pundit 2.4.21-144-default #1 Fri Nov 14 00:01:36 UTC
2003
> > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > cat /proc/mtrr >
> > reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> > reg01: base=0x1c000000 ( 448MB), size=  64MB: uncachable, count=1
> > reg02: base=0xdc000000 (3520MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg03: base=0xe8000000 (3712MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg04: base=0xe1400000 (3604MB), size=   4MB: write-combining, count=1
>
> Is that from before or after starting X?
>
> Do you have a console framebuffer driver running?
>
>  > (WW) SIS(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xe8000000,0x4000000)
>
> The reason for your problem is that, for some reason, MTRR setup fails,
> although it obviously is supported by your kernel. At the moment I
> cannot think of a reason for this.
>
> Does this warning message go away if you change the amount of video RAM
> to, say, 32MB in the BIOS setup?
>
> (BTW: Why do you set "forcecrt1" to "false" when it appears that you
> neither have a TV, LCD or secondary VGA connected?)
>
> Thomas
>
> -- 
> Thomas Winischhofer
> Vienna/Austria
> thomas AT winischhofer DOT net          http://www.winischhofer.net/
> twini AT xfree86 DOT org
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