On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:47, Chris H <chr...@1command.com> wrote: > Greetings, > I brought this same error to the list back in May 2009. > Under: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument. > Well, I'm back using the same card: > GeForce4 MX 440-SE - VideoRam 65536 - BusID PCI:1:3:0. > The driver is different, I'm using: nvidia-driver-96.43.13 out of ports on a > custom 8-STABLE kernel. Xorg starts up, and produces a desktop. But it's > "dog slow", and the nvidia driver emits the following error: > NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xf0000000, 0M (write-combining) > several times. I understand John Baldwin provided some "invaluable" help some > time ago: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html > and I was wondering if anyone has gained any further "insight" with these > cards, > and how to better "interface" them in BSD. Last I spoke on the topic, I was > informed that the memory was basically "untouchable" - or perhaps in other > words; > can't be manipulated. Has this changed? Surely someone else has had to deal > with > this besides me. It seems crazy to spend a "boat load" of $$ on these high > performers, and not be able to use them on a high performing OS - no? :) > Sure, the one I'm working with now is "legacy". But I have 3 near new, top of > their line cards, and thus far it appears that if I ever hope to use them, > I'll > be forced to... hack, choke.. spin up a WIN CD. :( > > Thank you for all your time, consideration, and insight.
FreeBSD as of 8.0-RELEASE supports PAT which obsoletes MTRR. It was a requirement for the nvidia amd64 blob. So in the future it should all work fine if you have at least a card which is supported by the newest nvidia driver. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
