Re: [PATCH] VESA framebuffer w/ MTRR locks 2.4.0 on init

[David Wragg]

Chris Kloiber <[e-mail]> writes:
> last 2 lines in dmesg output:
> mtrr: 0xd8000000,0x2000000 overlaps existing 0xd8000000,0x1000000
> mtrr: 0xd8000000,0x2000000 overlaps existing 0xd8000000,0x1000000

Are you running XFree86-4.0.x?

> cat /proc/mtrr
> reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
> reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size=  16MB: write-combining, count=1
> reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1
>  
> 
> My video card is Voodoo3/3000/AGP and my motherboard is an MSI-6330
> (Athlon Tbird 800)
> I am experiencing text console video corruption. In tdfxfb mode or
> regular vesafb it looks like a horizontal line of color pixels that
> grows, in 'regular' text mode I get flashing characters or the font
> degrades into unreadable mess. X is fine.

What does "lspci -v" give?

David Wragg