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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: fastvid lkm 
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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:24:01 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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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
>