Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 30-Oct-99 Andrew Atrens wrote: > I remember this now, I was one of those that got bit by this problem. What > I recall is that MTRR support made a dramatic speed improvement, but alas > was _extremely_ unstable. That was when I had an ATI Expert@Work card. > Since then I've gotten a 3dfx V

Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > > I disabled (or asked Peter to, actually) the K6-2+ MTRR driver a while > > back because with XFree86 3.9.16 (an alpha which uses MTRR support) it > > would cause memory corruption. It's

Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-30 Thread Andrew Atrens
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > I disabled (or asked Peter to, actually) the K6-2+ MTRR driver a while > back because with XFree86 3.9.16 (an alpha which uses MTRR support) it > would cause memory corruption. It's very strange, and something I > really haven't figured

Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-29 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I disabled (or asked Peter to, actually) the K6-2+ MTRR driver a while back because with XFree86 3.9.16 (an alpha which uses MTRR support) it would cause memory corruption. It's very strange, and something I really haven't figured out... If you want to enable it, go ahead, but be very wary; if yo

K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-29 Thread Andrew Atrens
All, I recently moved from a K6-2 to a K6-III and my dmesg output appears to have changed. In particular I'm not seeing messages about wrtalloc and mtrr support anymore - are they not supported for the K6-III ? FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Oct 29 01:59:19 EDT 1999 atrens@churchill:/usr/loca