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diff --git a/doc/README.freebsd b/doc/README.freebsd deleted file mode 100644 index 72d5f2e65..000000000 --- a/doc/README.freebsd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,93 +0,0 @@ -xine fails when allocating images ---------------------------------- - -Make sure you have enough shared memory enabled. This is very -limited by default. - -Edit your /etc/sysctl.conf: - -kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 -kern.ipc.shmall=32768 - - -mtrr on freebsd ---------------- - -setting up the caching behaviour of the memory on the graphics board. - -what is being done with the mtrr support on linux is to set the caching -type of the memory of the graphics board to 'write-combine' mode. -that way the performance of big writes into this memory should be faster. - -it seems that the same can be achieved on freebsd by executing: - - memcontrol set -b <base-address> -l <length> write-combine - -for example on my system i executed: - - memcontrol set -n 0xd8000000 -l 0x02000000 write-combine - -i got the base-adress by executing 'startx' and looking at the output. - -it seems to be dangerous to change the cache setting of the graphics memory -while xfree is running - at least i managed to have my system freeze that -way. so better do it on the commandline. - -this tip is still subject of research, so it might be incorrect - please -report any further information on this topic to the xine-user list. -please also report success or non-success on xine-user if you have the time. - - -playing video cd on freebsd ---------------------------- - -currently (because of issues with the freebsd kernel) xine can only -play video cd from atapi cdrom drives. not for scsi drives! - -currently (Jan 2001), FreeBSD-stable (and thus the current releases also) -needs a patch to the kernel sources to make video cd work (please check -the freebsd documentation if you are unsure on how to build a custom -kernel with this patch included). - -the file you have to patch is /sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c: - -*** atapi-cd.c.orig Sun Jan 21 14:42:57 2001 ---- atapi-cd.c Sun Jan 21 14:47:13 2001 -*************** -*** 1163,1174 **** - return; - } - } -! if (blocksize == 2048) -! ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_BIG; -! else { -! ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_CD; -! ccb[9] = 0x10; -! } - } - else - ccb[0] = ATAPI_WRITE_BIG; ---- 1163,1182 ---- - return; - } - } -! switch (blocksize) { -! case 2048: -! ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_BIG; -! break; -! -! case 2352: -! ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_CD; -! ccb[9] = 0xf8; -! break; -! -! default: -! ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_CD; -! ccb[9] = 0x10; -! } - } - else - ccb[0] = ATAPI_WRITE_BIG; - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - |