append="video=vesa:mtrr"
in lilo.conf did the trick - so it just doesn't
set mtrr's by default anymore but forcing it to do so works fine, so I am
happy.
Thanks,
Tigran.
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I boot 2.2.5 I get an entry in /proc/mtrr
>
> reg01: base=0xfd000000 (4048MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1
>
> but with 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 I have to do it manually by:
>
> echo "base=0xfd000000 size=0x400000 type=write-combining" > /proc/mtrr
>
> I have "ATI Technologies Inc 215GP [Mach64 GP] (rev 5c)" card (according
> to lspci).
>
> I do not use atyfb but use vesafb because one can't select it on make
> xconfig so I assumed it is for a good reason = "don't use it just yet -
> experimental" ;)
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