It means you don't have MTRR support in your kernel and
subsequently performance will suffer. I'm assuming FreeBSD
even supports MTRRs (Linux does).
Mark.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Federico Mantovani wrote:
> Hi to all the members of this mailing-list. I have just installed
> FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE on my laptop a Toshiba Satellite 4030 CDS with a
> Triden Cyber 9525/DVD card.
> I configured the X server (I am using XFree86 4.3.0): everything seems
> to work fine, but I receive in /var/log/XFree86.0.log the following warning:
>
> (==) TRIDENT(0): Write-combining range (0xff7e0000,0x20000) was already
> clear
> (WW) TRIDENT(0): Failed to set write-combining range (0xff800000,0x2800000)
>
> I have searched with Google and in some newsgroups for the meaning of
> this warning. I repeat: everything works fine, but I'd like to know why
> I get these lines in the log file. Thanks in advance.
>
> Federico Mantovani
>
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