On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Robert Rozman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sending files requested to give proper help. Like I said it seems like
> > Xv is not working (I get lower cpu if I set -vo x11 in mplayer). I suspect
> > that software scaling is going on, but don't know what to do to correct this
> > ( I get CPU for X 40-50% and for mplayer or mythtv frontend about 20%). I
> > have Asus pundit, with P4 2.4 G.
> >
> > I'll appreciate any help, since this is the only major problem left...
> >
> > I have:
> >
> > uname -a -> Linux pundit 2.4.21-144-default #1 Fri Nov 14 00:01:36 UTC 2003
> > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > cat /proc/mtrr >
> > reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> > reg01: base=0x1c000000 ( 448MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1
> > reg02: base=0xdc000000 (3520MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg03: base=0xe8000000 (3712MB), size= 32MB: write-combining, count=1
That's the Sis framebuffer. There's 32 Meg already write-combined.
> > reg04: base=0xe1400000 (3604MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1
>
> Is that from before or after starting X?
>
> Do you have a console framebuffer driver running?
>
> > (WW) SIS(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xe8000000,0x4000000)
It tries to write-combine 64 meg, but somebody already set it
up as 32 Meg (BIOS? framebuffer device?). Looks like somebody
is confused about the actual size of the framebuffer.
Mark.
>
> The reason for your problem is that, for some reason, MTRR setup fails,
> although it obviously is supported by your kernel. At the moment I
> cannot think of a reason for this.
>
> Does this warning message go away if you change the amount of video RAM
> to, say, 32MB in the BIOS setup?
>
> (BTW: Why do you set "forcecrt1" to "false" when it appears that you
> neither have a TV, LCD or secondary VGA connected?)
>
> Thomas
>
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