X -config -> failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On 8.0-current i386 with i845 chipset I gave up on agp and intel driver.
I tried vesa and got

failed to set mtrr: Invalid argument
^C
failed to unset mtrr: No such file or directory

# tail -5 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
(==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
(==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
(==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
(==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
#

the same error was reported earlier:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/191357.html

   EA EA eitanadlerlist at gmail.com
   Sun Jan 25 05:51:26 PST 2009
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In my third attempt to get any form of a working X server I tried the
xf86-video-vesa driver.
(x11/nvidia-driver fails, x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv fails)

I get the following error message:
failed to set mtrr: Invalid argument

In Xorg.log I have the following line at the end"
(==) VESA(0): Write combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
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not sure what platform this was.

Any advice?

many thanks
anton


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