On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:49:46PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:22:12 +0200
> Maarten de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Florian,
> >
> > Is this with kernel 2.6.x or 2.4.x?
> >
> > I remember there were some problems with Matrox cards, that were
> > initially not included in the 2.4.x low-latency patch, but I thought
> > that at some point Andrew included them.
> >
> > http://www.eca.cx/lad/2002/06/0076.html
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your mail. It seems though that this is independent of the kernel
> version. I booted into 2.4.22 with LL+preempt and it shows the exact same behaviour
> as did 2.6.7 vanilla, 2.6.7-bk10-ck5-H3 and 2.6.8-rc1-mm1... I think the card is
> just not good.. I'm also wondering about the weird lspci -v output which reports no
> latency for the matrox card [and it's not bus master like all other pci devices i
> have]..
one other thing to try: be sure in you XF86Config you have
PciRetry set to off. From man mga:
Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
Enable or disable PCI retries. Default: off.
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Paul Winkler
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