Phoronix IRC Log: 2009-08-11

redeeman: anyone know where deanjo is?
Kano: hi michaellarabel
Kano: michaellarabel: as soon as i open the edit preferences all preferences have got differnet defaults than before, like prompting for dl mirror is turned on, which is off by default, why is thatß
redeeman: kano!
Kano: hi redeeman
redeeman: as you may recall, i've had nvidia issues
redeeman: i bought a GTX 275 to try and fix it
redeeman: but no luck
Kano: ah
redeeman: im trying to troubleshoot it, and MAY have found some info
redeeman: can you look at your /proc/irq/thenvidiaone/spurious
redeeman: mine reported one unhandled almost at the same time of the freeze
Kano: maybe because my boards are the basic variants, just ICH9/10R and not that extra fuss
redeeman: mine is ICH9R
Kano: no firefire, nothing, my latest Q45 board has not even a ide controller
redeeman: i now think its due to some race condition
redeeman: firefire?
redeeman: oh
Kano: firewire ;)
redeeman: well the firewire isn't handled by the ich
redeeman: also i disabled firewire in the bios
Kano: sure but it all needs pci lanes
redeeman: yes but the pci stuff is on a bridge on the pcie bus
redeeman: so shouldn't affect
redeeman: hmm turns out i have firewire enabled in bios
redeeman: do you really think that could affect?
Kano: no idea, i dont have got firewire in my board
Kano: but one board runs with 2 controllers and 5 hds *g*
Kano: just building my new rig together in my midi tower
Kano: added the board, will add hd later. i just dont have got a free sata dvd drive yet
Kano: i would try to disable everything thats not needed
redeeman: :)
Kano: what was the other board you tested the card?
Kano: also a full featured one?
redeeman: actually nope, one with ICH9, not R, though i think firewire too
redeeman: i've also tested an AMD system
redeeman: s939 though
redeeman: Kano: does the spurious file show any unhandled at you?
Kano: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2535
Kano: thats my board i use for oc
Kano: will boot it now
redeeman: i've tried GA-P35-DS3R aswell
Kano: my other boards do not support oc
Kano: the main diff to p35 is vga board and missing firewire
redeeman: yeah
redeeman: i think its the only difference
Kano: so maybe firewire affects it?
redeeman: next time i reboot i shall definitely deactivate firewire(which it seems i didnt on this box)
redeeman: but im hopeful that setting cpu affinity on the interrupt handlers will solve it
redeeman: though im not willing to bet on it :)
Kano64: grep nvidia /proc/interrupts
Kano64: 16: 6782 6815 6773 6800 IO-APIC-fasteoi pata_jmicron, uhci_hcd:usb3, nvidia
Kano64: cat /proc/irq/16/spurious
Kano64: count 20523
Kano64: unhandled 0
Kano64: last_unhandled 0 ms
redeeman: yeah, mine says:
Kano64: what do you see there now?
redeeman: count 69588
redeeman: unhandled 1
redeeman: last_unhandled 661242412 ms
redeeman: and i got one nvrm: xid:
Kano64: well i just booted the box
redeeman: [637270.620362] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0005
Kano64: system.firmware.version = 'F7k' (string)
redeeman: if firewire causes this im gonna be slightly annoyed
redeeman: because i need firewire when i switch to the box permanently
Kano64: can not tell, but there are not that many diffs between p35 and g33
redeeman: its worth a shot
redeeman: allthough im pretty certain i had firewire off on the p35
Kano64: whats your output for the first grep
Kano64: here it is shared with one usb and pata controller
redeeman: 32: 2835670 2181742 2181855 2180995 PCI-MSI-edge nvidia
redeeman: it was shared with something before i went to MSI
redeeman: but its not msi causing it, i switched to msi in hopes of it fixing it
Kano64: hmm, i dont use that msi then
redeeman: you must NVreg_EnableMSI or something on kernel parameter for it to use it
Kano64: i guess i tested that once because it was unstable with vdpau, but that was not the problem
redeeman: nope, vdpau does work here
Kano64: dvb-c input was just too bad
redeeman: allthough it uses absurd amounts of cpu with compositing enabled
redeeman: Kano64: is it possible to decode with vdpau, and output with xv?
Kano64: no, you can use vdpau as output however and dont use the vdpau codecs
Kano64: michaellarabel: still no git changes to pts? i tried a git pull on an old checkout...
iaca: Can someone please tell me how to stop a program from starting up? I am in the recovery mode and at command prompt
Kano: from kde autostart?
iaca: Ubuntu 9.04 x64
iaca: in GRUB i selected recovery mode
Kano: so you are in the single user mode
Kano: and which app you dont want that it starts?
iaca: i am the only user on the machine
iaca: I need to kill conky
iaca: what happened was I used FsLint to cleanup my system and it killed something
Kano: haha
iaca: so i was thinking maybe if i can kill conky at startup i will be ok
Kano: so you are the conky feak that asks every day *g*
iaca: ?
Kano: iaca: simple solution: chmod -x on the conky executeble
Kano: and it will never run ;)
iaca: i will try
iaca: freak?
iaca: ty
iaca: will try

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