Re: mtrr question

From: Nick Warne
Date: Thu Jun 16 2005 - 14:19:17 EST


On Wednesday 08 June 2005 20:53, Dave Jones wrote:

> > I also forgot to say I use the nVidia agp module (works better for me in
> > Quake2 for some reason)... but searching their docs doesn't even mention
> > mtrr.
> >
> > Could it be that? If so, I am wasting you guys time.
>
> Maybe. I don't use non-free drivers, so I have no idea
> what nvidia are/aren't doing in their driver.

This is confirmed it is a nvidia thing. Tonight I have just upgraded
(updated?) from 2.4.31 to 2.6.11.12 kernel (whooo), and used agpart - I now
have /proc/mtrr values as expected from boot.

Quake2 works great too :-)

Nick
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