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Video output devices</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xv.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="8.1. Setting up MTRR"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="mtrr"></a>8.1. Setting up MTRR</h2></div></div></div><p> It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly, because they can give a big performance boost. </p><p> Do a <span class="command"><strong>cat /proc/mtrr</strong></span>: </p><pre class="screen"> <code class="prompt">--($:~)--</code> cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1</pre><p> </p><p> It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16MB memory. I did this from XFree 4.x.x, which sets up MTRR registers automatically. </p><p> If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the base address. You have 3 ways to find it: </p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p> from X11 startup messages, for example: </p><pre class="screen"> (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</pre><p> </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> from <tt class="filename">/proc/pci</tt> (use <span class="command"><strong>lspci -v</strong></span> command): </p><pre class="screen"> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</pre><p> </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use <span class="command"><strong>dmesg</strong></span>): </p><pre class="screen">mga_mem_base = d8000000</pre><p> </p></li></ol></div><p> </p><p> Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video RAM size to hexadecimal, or use this table: </p><div class="informaltable"><table border="0"><colgroup><col><col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>1 MB</td><td>0x100000</td></tr><tr><td>2 MB</td><td>0x200000</td></tr><tr><td>4 MB</td><td>0x400000</td></tr><tr><td>8 MB</td><td>0x800000</td></tr><tr><td>16 MB</td><td>0x1000000</td></tr><tr><td>32 MB</td><td>0x2000000</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p><p> You know base address and memory size, let's setup MTRR registers! For example, for the Matrox card above (<code class="literal">base=0xd8000000</code>) with 32MB ram (<code class="literal">size=0x2000000</code>) just execute: </p><pre class="screen"> echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" > /proc/mtrr </pre><p> </p><p> Not all CPUs have MTRRs. 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