From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jvd91-0005GO-KQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E76ECE05E4; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B152BE05E4 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so2496454wfg.10 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:53:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=oIk0J90hZo4RBnS6DwRwYFDUTUUEhNY2drZ0exDfzJg=; b=btyRcou6ZBMC6YcnknlCU8ujD0sRICY7qloJSdfG9YHoFiNCHjYCnqsQCi4TktGEVojgYeMazM7OpZmIldtI/yPM8tA+fIXxHkIkTdnUmLF50noo9P4GOtxBdjWwrUp1CbmpETUpTrGJr25jWH8JgOu8oE9YonfqxpxeLohvkiA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SGh+SnZKulFLPKt3cHKz/6sqAtHy0APwA/+mz1hpeVHHxdNrlVsP99vBPnS+VmTdGFlU3r3RtNoviJk2jVWtIqeZQjzq/iSHEFh5AOGA3CBl28u1Eq0GWjZ7+ma5X73VRosBpP9hXy+6ilB6dhji30VorbPID7fQavzqCuFkeIQ= Received: by 10.142.128.6 with SMTP id a6mr3407849wfd.206.1210618385177; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.78.11 with HTTP; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <350fc7cf0805121153t74980c43vf6e551d4470d50b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:53:05 -0400 From: "Andrey Falko" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT In-Reply-To: <48288CE1.8020905@coolmail.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4826A520.1030007@coolmail.se> <350fc7cf0805110057h228ca2ddja777b60cc8658d77@mail.gmail.com> <4826AB0E.3040805@coolmail.se> <350fc7cf0805111303p538365a6u306ba633ae92daf3@mail.gmail.com> <48288CE1.8020905@coolmail.se> X-Archives-Salt: 0c6ebd54-f1ec-446f-b52f-e162efee884f X-Archives-Hash: 1cb2a90a1e7b34b4e3f7812187cdd9b4 On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM, pk wrote: > Andrey Falko wrote: >> >> Try 2.6.24, I'm afraid that your video might be too new for 2.6.23. > > Well, I think you have misunderstood my question(s). I may have been unclear > as to what I would like to achieve... My goal is to see if my MTRR settings > are ok or not; well, even better would be if I could understand the settings > so that I can make a judgement myself if it's ok or not. > > The video (X) works fine as it is (not counting the occasional artifact in > 3D games). Ahh I see. I don't know much about MTRR...all I know is that you can adjust them via grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 . You probably read this already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Type_Range_Registers > >> Here are my comments your config: >> >> -In General Setup: Try choosing SLAB allocator. > > Well, I tried to live on the "edge" a little, trying it out... ;-) > >> -Your Bus Options look good. >> -I'm 80% sure that you are not supposed to have /dev/agpgart enabled >> since you are using PCI-Express....I have a PCI-Express system and I >> have it disabled. Actually, I don't have anything enabled under >> "Graphic Support". Since you are using Radeon, I think you might need >> to enable Direct Rendering Manager, then choose Radeon. > > I run fglrx (AMD/Atis binary blob) and the ebuild complains if I don't have > certain options set. This may have changed but I've used the same config for > a while now (since around 2.6.13-14) on older systems (with AGP). I'm > planning to migrate to radeonhd (or maybe the r300) driver when it has 3D > support and has stabilised somewhat. > Yeh, I have Nvidia cards, so I guess ATI is different. > I think I've found some more info on what I'm after: > http://www.amd.com/gb-uk/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739_7044,00.html > (the system programming manual). > > Thanks for your time, Andrey! Your welcome :). > > Best regards > > Peter K > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list