Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:55:04PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote I had a similar message, it was there because of the fact that i specified the wrong (or failed to specify?) mtrr method in my kernel boot parameters for the framebuffer. I'm using uvesafb and in kernel documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 04:37 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:55:04PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote I had a similar message, it was there because of the fact that i specified the wrong (or failed to specify?) mtrr method in my kernel boot parameters for the framebuffer. I'm using uvesafb

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 August 2010 15:47:46 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/19/2010 04:37 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:55:04PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote I had a similar message, it was there because of the fact that i specified the wrong (or failed to specify?) mtrr method in my

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I think my mtrr is OK, but I do not understand this enough to know if it would benefit from manual configuration. I think, from the error you posted about originally, it's just letting you know: Hey, your MTRR was set wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 August 2010 22:43:19 Paul Hartman wrote: I think, from the error you posted about originally, it's just letting you know: Hey, your MTRR was set wrong and we've changed it for you. So changing it would simply make the message go away but not actually perform any differently

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  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

[gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

2010-08-15 Thread Walter Dnes
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,