From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 20:51:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24402 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 20:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles307.castles.com [208.214.167.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24392; Sat, 30 May 1998 20:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA08863; Sat, 30 May 1998 19:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805310247.TAA08863@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG cc: nirva@ishiboo.com (Danny Dulai), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fastvid: no speed increase :( In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 18:54:20 CDT." <199805302354.SAA00461@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 19:47:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Danny Dulai said: > > Quoting John S. Dyson (toor@dyson.iquest.net): > > > > Quoting Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au): > > > > > > > > > > The speedup factor is 1.89, mmm :) > > > > > > This is a copy of the original code that I submitted to someone who > > > cleaned it up (I am sorry that I forgot who actually took ownership.) > > > > I used this code, set the VIDPHYSADDR to 0xe1800000 and VIDPHYSSIZE to > > 0x800000, and MSRINDEX is set to 5 (??) and experienced NO speed increase > > at all when using xengine. > > > If the (VGA/System)bios works right, then fastvid isn't needed. Many system BIOS setup programs have a "VGA buffer UC/USWC" option. The UC option is "just uncached", while the "USWC" option enables write combining. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message