Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:09 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3 |
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote: > Mika Fischer wrote: > > Hi Ingo, > > > > I'm having the same problem. > > > > Ingo Molnar schrieb: > >> excellent. So just to make sure: this box never had proper graphics > >> under Linux (under no previous kernel), due to the way the BIOS has set > >> up the MTRR's, right? > > > > Well, not quite. X still works fine, but since the video memory is > > overlapped by two of the existing MTRRs, X cannot add a write-combining > > range for the video memory. That makes X rather slow especially if you > > use DRI for Compiz etc. > > Well you are lucky then :) > > Yeah X 'worked' but it worked as slow as with vesa video driver here. > > Also starting something like supertuxkart made it crash or I got a black screen :( > > The only game I managed to start ( without X to crash ) without that patch was supertux but is was slow as hell. > However I'm not a gamer but I need X to work right. > or can you change graphics card memory in BIOS to some big like 256M instead of 64M?
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