Comments on 2.4.17-pre5 and ATYFB

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

As of 2.4.17-pre5 i don't get display corruption when i switch to a
console and
try and view some scrolling text (ie dmesg | less).

XFree86 Version 4.1.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.1.0-3) / X Window System
(1280x1024@16)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge
(rev 02)

atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
atyfb: 3D RAGE IIC (AGP) [0x475a rev 0x3a] 8M SDRAM, 14.31818 MHz XTAL,
230 MHz
PLL, 83 Mhz MCLK
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI

zwane@montezuma:~ $ cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xdf000000 (3568MB), size=   8MB: write-combining, count=1

Thanks !

Regards,
        Zwane Mwaikambo