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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:00:36
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0907191900s4e97ca57yc9ee4d71ade3a592@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found by Mark Knecht
1 On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 <SNIP>
3 > myth12 mythtv # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
4 > Current Operating System: Linux myth12 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #4 PREEMPT Fri
5 > Jun 26 09:51:45 PDT 2009 i686
6 >        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
7 > (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
8 > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
9 > myth12 mythtv #
10 >
11 >
12 > myth12 linux # dmesg | tail -n 5
13 > [   17.486289] usb 1-0:1.0: uevent
14 > [   19.612246] eth0:  setting full-duplex.
15 > [   30.350021] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
16 > [  433.541492] pci 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11
17 > (level, low) -> IRQ 11
18 > [  435.609192] mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found
19
20
21 myth12 linux # cat /proc/mtrr
22 reg00: base=0x000000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB, count=1: write-back
23 reg01: base=0x00c000000 ( 192MB), size= 64MB, count=1: uncachable
24 myth12 linux #
25
26 Seems that maybe this machine really doesn't have an MTRR at e8000000.
27
28 Are MTRR's necessary? This machine ran a much older kernel - circa
29 2.6.19 - until I tried to upgrade the xorg server. Possibly I was
30 never using MTRR and having it turned on at all is a mistake?
31
32 Thanks,
33 Mark

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[gentoo-user] Re: mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>