I’ve seen a few people complain about poor video performance in DragonFly, in Xorg. If you see a bunch of “contigmalloc_map: failed …” errors in your dmesg, your video card needs more contiguous memory allocated. Set vm.dma_reserved to 32M in /boot/loader.conf and you should be set. If that doesn’t work, try 64M.
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I think we are in major need of KMS.. I offered to port GEM from the freebsd patch which should be fairly ok, I am just not sure about the VM changes that look fairly trivial though I really need a second opion.. I asked sj and he said he would look, not heard back yet.. He was saying that we should use davids code but i think he is long gone and I really think we should push forward with porting what freebsd has functional already. I can make a start once this session is up..
This is in drm.4 man page (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=drm§ion=4), which sjg also hinted at in the thread linked.
(http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-03/msg00110.html,
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-03/msg00111.html;
it was munged up, as our mail list archiver has problems on some mails,
something like ‘-‘ first on line)