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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:09 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Gabriel C" <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Mika Fischer wrote:
>  > Hi Ingo,
>  >
>  > I'm having the same problem.
>  >
>  > Ingo Molnar schrieb:
>  >> excellent. So just to make sure: this box never had proper graphics
>  >> under Linux (under no previous kernel), due to the way the BIOS has set
>  >> up the MTRR's, right?
>  >
>  > Well, not quite. X still works fine, but since the video memory is
>  > overlapped by two of the existing MTRRs, X cannot add a write-combining
>  > range for the video memory. That makes X rather slow especially if you
>  > use DRI for Compiz etc.
>
>  Well you are lucky then :)
>
>  Yeah X 'worked' but it worked as slow as with vesa video driver here.
>
>  Also starting something like supertuxkart made it crash or I got a black screen :(
>
>  The only game I managed to start ( without X to crash ) without that patch was supertux but is was slow as hell.
>  However I'm not a gamer but I need X to work right.
>
or can you change graphics card memory in BIOS to some big like 256M
instead of 64M?

YH