From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 15 16:45:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26358 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@tokyo-5.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.229.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26339; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA15347; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: Greg Lehey , dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People having problems with X windows? In-Reply-To: <199805150902.SAA24178@cain.gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 May 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > The code is still in there, but I guess there is the need for more > > > research into the issue. > > > > Excuse my ignorance, but what's WC in this context? > It means Write-Combining, which you can enable on Pentium Pro and Pentium II > machine... It makes things Go Faster(tm) but I;m not sure what it does.. (ie > can someone please explain :) Since this is the case, then would it still affect P5s and similar chips? - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message