xorg optimization and mtrr

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 19:21 +1200, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> On 5/15/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I assume that latest nvidia drivers mean, "Latest nVidia closed source
> > binary driver 87.56"?
> 
> Yes, latest one up there,
> 
> > In general, you should consider posting this question in nvnews support
> 
> I would have thought it was an xorg issue or kernel issue.
> 
> > Never the less, what does your dmesg say (after you switch to init 5)
> 
> Nothing, a couple of lines about the nvidia module being loaded adn
> how it taints the kernel.  Thats all?
> 
> I am not sure but I thought mtrr was somethnig to do with kernel
> access to tthe gfx ram?  Is that right or am I totaly on the wrong
> page here?
> 

Can you post your mtrr?
$ cat /proc/mtrr 

It still seems like an nVidia problem to me. Is your card PCI-E or AGP?

Gilboa
P.S. I'm using Xinerama on my nVidia GF6800GT using the latest nVidia
drivers on FC5/x86_64 without a problem.