On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM, pk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
