Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:24:01 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fastvid lkm Message-ID: <199801242224.OAA01584@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:38:52 EST." <19980124163852.02128@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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More details please, Complete bios settings for cache, Mother board, CPU, graphics cards and parameters used in fastvid. Amancio > On the subject of Re: fastvid lkm, John S. Dyson stated: > > > Charles Henrich said: > > > How can one tell if its actually helping or hindering? > > > > > You can turn on the X benchmark mode, it should show the speed improvment (I > > see a 3-4X improvement for certain CPU/Video transfers.) Also, text mode > > scrolling should be faster. Some bioses might set the memory type registers > > correctly. Some do not (mine doesn't.) There was a bug in my initial > > version, in that the memory type was not being set correctly for the video > > mem (it was being set to 0, instead of 1 (write combining).) The ISA memory > > hole video mem was being set correctly though. > > > > I don't have time to look at it right now. Sorry... Lars is supporting it > > though :-). > > Running the lkm makes my display quite unhappy, I guess it isnt for my > motherboard/graphics card :) > > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu > > http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich >
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