gaya / directfb / video memory

[thica]

Hello,

I am still searching for a solution for the following problem.

Gaya is a DirectFb based application
There is no way to start a different DirectFB application from gaya as long as gaya is running
There is no way to stop gaya , rather than killing the gaya process.
Killing gaya does not properly releases the video memory occupied by gaya/directFb
As a result, there is no way to stop/restart gaya several times without wasting the video memory until the system is not working properly.

There could be a solution by reseting the video memory or framebuffer to release the memory, but I am not unix expert enough to figure out how to do so.

Does anybody have an idea for that problem?

[emveepee]

First gaya is not a directfb application. Also Killing gaya does seem to release everything the SDK libraries ok for mvpmcx2/GBPVR client users

What is you definition of several?

Martin

[accident]

I think I might be on the same page and for me personally, if gaya isn't going to get updated in the future (ajax abilities, etc) then its holding some of us back and we need to start considering replacement options..

[thica]

(04-18-2010 09:51 PM)emveepee Wrote:  First gaya is not a directfb application. Also Killing gaya does seem to release everything the SDK libraries ok for mvpmcx2/GBPVR client users

What is you definition of several?

Martin

Hi,

example:

Kill gaya OK
start directfb Application OK
start mono / amptest from directfb Application (with shutdown/restart dfb) ok
Terminate directfb application OK
Restart gaya OK
suspend nmt OK
awake nmt OK

after doing this 2-3 times, I am not able to either start a dfb application
or mono from gaya (command line shows: out of video memory or mono hangs initialisizing the video system.

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(04-18-2010 09:51 PM)emveepee Wrote:  First gaya is not a directfb application. Also Killing gaya does seem to release everything the SDK libraries ok for mvpmcx2/GBPVR client users

What is you definition of several?

Martin

Hi,

example:

Kill gaya OK
start directfb Application OK
start mono / amptest from directfb Application (with shutdown/restart dfb) ok
Terminate directfb application OK
Restart gaya OK
suspend nmt OK
awake nmt OK

after doing this 2-3 times, I am not able to either start a dfb application
or mono from gaya (command line shows: out of video memory or mono hangs initialisizing the video system.

[emveepee]

I think I understand the problem better now. When I develop and run via telnet, as opposed to running from a cgi script. I see the some odd things after I shutdown but I've written that off to hardware signalling not directfb problems. To avoid this before I exit telnet I always killall gaya. I figured I could use nohup but that requires more thought.

Also after amp_test (which is the only directfb app) runs you probably also need to use losetup to close the loopback device it leaves open.

Martin

[thica]

Hi,

that hint with losetup loop device might point in the rigth direction. I will investigate in that direction