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 > > -- > Thomas Winischhofer > Vienna/Austria > thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ > twini AT xfree86 DOT org > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86