Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/26/2010 07:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>    Assuming I haven't made any omissions or stupid mistakes that gets >> me into xfce4. I don't know if I'm running X over a frame buffer or >> using a more native VGA. > > Enable composi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Drake Donahue
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 09:30 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: > >> write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Gr

[gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 07:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suff

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: >> write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed.  Graphics performance may >> suffer. > > This rings a bell. Your kern

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: > write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may > suffer. This rings a bell. Your kernel line in grub.conf has something like "video=inteldrmfb:mtrr:3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/26/2010 01:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    I've been working on trying to get this new machine to run X. So >> far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting. >> >>    My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no

[gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-25 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:10:23 +0200 as excerpted: > On 01/26/2010 01:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >> I've been working on trying to get this new machine to run X. So >> far no luck =:^( >> but I'm learning so it's interesting. =:^) >> My quick question goes

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/26/2010 01:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    I've been working on trying to get this new machine to run X. So >> far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting. >> >>    My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no

[gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 01:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've been working on trying to get this new machine to run X. So far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting. My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no drivers I get a VGA console. If I modprobe a frame buffer driver at boot