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From: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>
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To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower?
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, the wise Andrew Gallatin spoke, and said:

>  > > Search for "set pci_device_override" at
>  > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-alpha.html
>
> The bug in question occurrs when DMAing across a page boundary.
> In my experience, this bug causes the machine to lock solid, not to
> exhibit corruption.
>
> Like Fred said, its a graphics controller not a scsi adapter.  Give it
> a shot.

Well, the Matrox is in a 64 bit slot now, and I have to say it's a big
improvement! I did a 'set pci_device_override -1' in the console, and
graphics performance in acrobat and gimp is a lot faster now.

Thank you all for the tips.

Marco
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