Re: 2.2.18pre25, S3, AMD K6-2, and MTRR....

From: David Wragg (dpw@doc.ic.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 05:29:53 EST


Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:20:31PM +0000, David Wragg wrote:
> > If I understood why the MTRR driver was doing something on the K6-2,
> > then model-specific differences might make some sense. But currently,
> > I don't see why there would be any difference between "MTRR disabled"
> > and "MTRR enabled, but not used".
>
> If I'm not mistaken, X /does/ touch the MTRR's, which would explain why
> it is X that crashes.

Only in XFree86-4.x (I never distributed my MTRR patches for
XFree86-3.x ;-). Which is why the XFree86 version was one of the
things I wanted to confirm.
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