Re: MTRR Problems - 2.4.19-rc3

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:01:18 +0200


On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:

(Please learn to quote correctly)

> > Something in userspace tried to delete an MTRR that didn't exist.
> > The only time I've seen this happen personally has been with
> > a dual-head card for which the BIOS set up one MTRR to cover
> > the video ram used by both heads, and then iirc X did something
> > silly and tried to remove separate MTRRs for each head on exit.
>
> Is there a fix to this?

Don't know, I didn't have the card that showed that behaviour long,
and my current dual head cards don't exhibit it, so either it got fixed
in a newer X, or its driver specific.

Either way, it's a userspace problem afaics.

Dave

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