failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

[Chris H]

Quoting Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org>:

> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:10 -0700, Chris H wrote:
>> > So, zapping is off by default now in 1.6.x.  If you want it, add
>> Option
>> > "DontZap" "off".  The cross hatch is also gone, that is what the
>> -retro
>> > option is supposed to do.  The session leader in a failsafe twm
>> session
>> > is the left hand xterm.  Typing exit in that window should exit the
>> > session.
>>
>> DOH! Sorry. My bad. I have since determined that turning off hald &&
>> dbus
>> improve performance. I built the X server with the hald option picked.
>> But, when I bounced the box, and started an X session (with a WM),
>> performance was improved. BUT. Performance pretty much sucks. I have 4
>> of these boards running with the onbord (mach64) video, and the mere
>> 2Mb
>> built in RAM. They run with better performance than does this one with
>> (200Mhz less CPU) comparable RAM && this one has 64Mb onboard && a
>> faster
>> Gpu. But they also run 6.4-STABLE && xorg-6.9.
>> So, I'm going to experiment by rebuilding the X server w/o the HAL
>> driver - make option && untick HAL. Then portupgrade -fi xorg-server.
>>
>> I'll report back should there be any improvement.
>
> So, the use of hal or not shouldn't produce any performance difference.
> It is only used to detect input devices kbd/mouse.
>
> One thing that I have discovered and I'm hoping for someone to send me a
> patch, is that if you build xorg-server without hal support it doesn't
> get linked to pthread libraries.  This causes issues with libdrm on
> Intel at least.  Not sure what else may be impacted.
Indeed, I believe my performance issues were a combination of hal, and dbus
polling, and my still tweaking X. Probably not /just/ hal/dbus - tho hal
/did/ add a keyboard and mouse on top of those already declared in 
xorg.conf :/

>
> There is also my nouveau patch that you could try.  That should get you
> EXA and Xv acceleration with the nouveau driver.  Overall the reports
> that I've been getting have been good.

HAH! I've already been trolling the nVidia site, and the ports page on
FreeBSD - found that driver - looks interesting. But I think I'd like to
start with the nVidia driver, and utilities from their site first.

Thanks again for all your time and dedication.

--Chris H
>
> robert.
>
>> Thank you very much Robert, for all your time and efforts.
> --
> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
> FreeBSD
>