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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
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> Andrey Falko wrote: |
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>> Try 2.6.24, I'm afraid that your video might be too new for 2.6.23. |
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> Well, I think you have misunderstood my question(s). I may have been unclear |
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> as to what I would like to achieve... My goal is to see if my MTRR settings |
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> are ok or not; well, even better would be if I could understand the settings |
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> so that I can make a judgement myself if it's ok or not. |
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> The video (X) works fine as it is (not counting the occasional artifact in |
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> 3D games). |
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Ahh I see. I don't know much about MTRR...all I know is that you can |
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adjust them via grub: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 |
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. You probably read this already: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Type_Range_Registers |
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>> Here are my comments your config: |
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>> -In General Setup: Try choosing SLAB allocator. |
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> Well, I tried to live on the "edge" a little, trying it out... ;-) |
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>> -Your Bus Options look good. |
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>> -I'm 80% sure that you are not supposed to have /dev/agpgart enabled |
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>> since you are using PCI-Express....I have a PCI-Express system and I |
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>> have it disabled. Actually, I don't have anything enabled under |
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>> "Graphic Support". Since you are using Radeon, I think you might need |
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>> to enable Direct Rendering Manager, then choose Radeon. |
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> I run fglrx (AMD/Atis binary blob) and the ebuild complains if I don't have |
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> certain options set. This may have changed but I've used the same config for |
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> a while now (since around 2.6.13-14) on older systems (with AGP). I'm |
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> planning to migrate to radeonhd (or maybe the r300) driver when it has 3D |
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> support and has stabilised somewhat. |
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Yeh, I have Nvidia cards, so I guess ATI is different. |
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> I think I've found some more info on what I'm after: |
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> http://www.amd.com/gb-uk/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739_7044,00.html |
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> (the system programming manual). |
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> Thanks for your time, Andrey! |
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Your welcome :). |
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> Best regards |
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> Peter K |
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