Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:46:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:46:13 -0500 Received: from swazi.realnet.co.sz ([196.28.7.2]:44726 "HELO netfinity.realnet.co.sz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:46:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:40:51 +0200 (SAST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo X-X-Sender: zwane@netfinity.realnet.co.sz To: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= Cc: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: fonts corruption with 3dfx drm module In-Reply-To: <20020129143209.2AE68FB85@netfinity.realnet.co.sz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] N?tzel wrote: > > (mostly because with 3.3.6 i never setup the MTRRs myself) > > We 3.3.6 you have to do it some times. Yep mine never got enabled per default, if i enabled it i would experience the same segfaults and font corruption so i got 3.3.6 to "behave" like 4.1 default and reproduced the problem. > This could be all the VIA/mobo/BIOS problems widely discussed. > Maybe the latest AGP GART issue. This was about a year ago, and i wasn't aware of an issue. > Have you ever looked at XFree and/or DRI devel? > I think this could and should be solved. Without notice nobody cares... I think i'll do that. > You should definitely go with XFree86 4.2.0. It is out and most distros have > packages available. Then look deeper into the MTRR problem. Thanks for reply, i'm going to resurrect that board ;) Cheers, Zwane Mwaikambo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/