Subject: Where to enable MTRR's?
Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:12:41PM -0400
In reply to:Ian Peters
Quoting Ian Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am using potato, a 2.2 kernel on a dual PII box. I would like to
> enable the memory type range registers to be write-combining for my
> video card and 3DFX card. To do this, I need to run something like:
>
> echo "base=0xf2000000 size=0x800000 type=write-combining" >> /proc/mtrr
> echo "base=0xf4000000 size=0x400000 type=write-combining" >> /proc/mtrr
>
> I need to do this once only, at system boot (at least until XFree86
> starts automatically setting the MTRR's for the video card). Where is
> the appropriate place to put such commands? I am coming from a RedHat
> background, so I looked for an rc.local file, but didn't find one.
> Thanks for your time.
>
Ian
I'd put that in /etc/init.d in a file local.rc. I have all my odd
startup commands there. Use update-rc.d to get the local.rc script
linked up correctly (man update-rd.d).
HTH
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