Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 23:08:45 +0100 (MET) From: Didier Derny <didier@aida.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PCI Settings on ACER MB... Message-ID: <XFMail.951217231555.didier@aida> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951215120629.246A-100000@hub.org>
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On 15-Dec-95 "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: >> >Hi... > > I just picked up and installed a new ACER PCI 486DX4-100...and >I swear it isn't faster then my old 386DX40. Pine still takes forever >to loadup, as are most of my applications that are dynamically linked, >and I just hit what is being reported as a 'bus error' signal to cc1 >when I try to compile anything. Hi Im running an acer AL3 mother board with an 486DX4-120 AMD with write back cache >. my previous computer (compaq 386dx20+cyrix 486rx2-40) gave 10 bogomips 40 at morton. now I get 48 bogomips, 265 at norton. and X11 is a real pleasure make world only lasts 10 hours. MIRO S3-964 2mo Vram, AHA2940 + HD SCSI seagate hawk. I also had a 486dx4-100 (write trough) It worked fine. Is your cache correctly configured ? do you have a correct bios configuration ? pine contains many calls to sleep.... > > Now, I've rebooted the machine, and its fine now, so am trying >to recompile the kernel again and will see what happens in that regard. > > Now, its a PCI motherboard, and there are setting here that I >don't much understand, nor know if they have relevance to Unix/FreeBSD >in any regard, good or bad. Any recommendations are much appreciated >on which why they should be set: > > CPU Burst Write (not sure what current is) > Video Shadow (disabled, ATI Mach64 4MB Video Card) > Main BIOS Cacheable (disabled, didn't think Unix used it) > Video Shadow Cacheable (disabled) > LBA Mode (disabled, only one IDE drive, < 500MB) > 32-bit transfer (enabled, IDE) > CPU-to-PCI Memory Post Write Buffer (not sure of setting) > CPU-to-PCI Memory Burst Write (not sure of setting) > > > Those are the only things in the manual that I'm not sure >whether they are applicable to Unix, and how... > >Thanks for any advice on this... > >Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting >scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, > soon to be: | | Information and >scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc > -- 12/17/95 23:08:45 Didier Derny | My computer is Microsoft Free... didier@aida.org | Private FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE site.
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