mtrr errors

DarkNecromancer · 02-24-2006, 01:51 AM

Hi, i've accually had a fairly smooth transition back to slackware except for one thing. I get everything up and running dri support and everything. Execpt when i set a background, i've use fbsetbg and wmsetbg, and as soon as i run it as part of the startup process of startx, done through .xinitrc, i start returning mtrr errors. I did some research and alot of the things i found say it had to do with BIOs and mtrr not passing correct values. So i flashed my bios up to date, and i completly reloaded. Every change i made i stopped and started x. And it all worked find until i tryed to set a background at start and my dmsg reported this

Quote:

mtrr: base(0xe8020000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
mtrr: base(0xe8020000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary

cat /proc/mtrr returns

Quote:

reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x40000000 (1024MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x4ef00000 (1263MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg03: base=0x4f000000 (1264MB), size= 16MB: uncachable, count=1
reg04: base=0xe8000000 (3712MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=2

and lspci -v returnes this for graphics

Quote:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 018d
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 018d
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1

i dont know i have read countless things that sound the same but i havn't found a solution yet that works. The weird thing, im running fluxbox now, if i try to start x with flux it dies, x just opens and closes no reported errors, but if i just open say blackbox or openbox it will work great until i set the background at startup, i can even wait till everything starts and issue the commmand and everything works fine. Well hope i expained my situation clear enough. Does anyone have any idea whats happening and a possible fix?

~Dark

DarkNecromancer · 02-24-2006, 04:06 PM

ok, i found out what the prblem was, i should have posted my .xinitrc. I was running my dockapps, then i was executing flux with the & command and then executing the background program, if i put the background program infront of the flux execute so there was no & symbol on it everything works fine. It quite frusterating that its was only that that was causing the problems, and i still dont know why it was a problem but it is, but now it workds

~Dark