Re: MTRR vesafb and wrong X performance

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 12:29:51 EST


On Llu, 2004-11-29 at 15:40, Dave Jones wrote:
> which is an ugly hack for the above problem imo.
> vesafb:nomtrr also fixes the problem, and leaves X free
> to set things up correctly in my experience.
>
> If vesafb can't get it right, maybe it shouldn't be
> attempted to do it in the half-assed way it currently does.

The problem is not vesafb its X. If someone would go fix the Xorg code
to handle extending existing maps the problem will go away.

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