Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:10:37 -0500 | From | Bob Tracy <> | Subject | Re: mtrr failure, 3.1-rc1 |
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:03:35AM +0200, Anders Eriksson wrote: > (mtrr issues)
Similar MTRR issue here with a K6-III/450, which I noticed when the X11 server was no longer able to allocate/configure a MTRR. "cat /proc/mtrr" shows nothing configured regardless of whether the X11 server is running. I only see a diagnostic message to the effect of the MTRR not existing when X11 exits.
Possibly significant: prior 3.X kernel versions would cause the X11 server to exit with a corrupted display after about 3-5 invocations. Machine was otherwise usable, but had to reboot remotely to recover the console display. The "no MTRR" issue in 3.1-rc1 has thus far meant no display corruption on X11 server exit: have run "startx" at least 10 times since booting 3.1-rc1.
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