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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:53:37
Message-Id: 20090122195526.GA21519@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked:
2 > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
3 > > Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the
4 > > sys log:
5 > >
6 > > Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,2000000 found
7 > >
8 > > and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown,
9 > > but the message is not echoed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
10 > >
11 > don't do it. Just don't do that. It should not be necessary. Instead look at
12 > the mtrr cleanup options in make menuconfig.
13
14 Sorry, but this does not help. I have that after I terminate X, the
15 following line on the console:
16
17 error setting MTRR (base = 0xe8000000, size = 0x02000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
18
19 and the following
20
21 e-nibbles wwong # dmesg | tail -n 5
22 pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
23 [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
24 [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
25 [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
26 mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,2000000 found
27 e-nibbles wwong # zgrep -i mtrr /proc/config.gz
28 CONFIG_MTRR=y
29 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y
30 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1
31 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT=1
32 e-nibbles wwong # uname -a
33 Linux e-nibbles 2.6.28.1 #2 Thu Jan 22 14:28:04 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
34
35
36 Is there anything I misconfigured?
37
38 Any other ideas?
39
40 Thanks,
41
42 W
43 --
44 "And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very
45 fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a
46 big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round...
47 ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground!
48 I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
49
50 - For the sperm whale, it wasn't.
51 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 776 days, 18:35

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Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it? Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>