I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller. An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff. Note the two lines that I've split off. They mention the mtrr type mismatch and the allocation failure. Is this a problem and if so, what do I do about it?
[ 0.519939] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [ 0.520016] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel HD Graphics Chipset [ 0.520842] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 131068K stolen memory [ 0.580462] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000 [ 0.580740] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0 [ 0.582896] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB] [ 0.582986] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1 [ 0.583063] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF] [ 0.583301] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state [ 0.583314] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-3 state [ 0.583325] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-3 state [ 0.586808] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 0.586877] i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 0.586934] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.608643] mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining [ 0.608725] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer. [ 0.608815] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X [ 0.608819] [drm] set up 127M of stolen space [ 0.946741] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75 [ 0.952156] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device [ 0.952176] registered panic notifier [ 0.952208] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 And here is an excerpt from "lspci -vv" 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Clarkdale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7636 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26 Region 0: Memory at fb800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0f00c Data: 4161 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>