[MPlayer-users] VESA Not Working on Kernels > 2.6.15.5

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:28:31AM -0500, Obecalp wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> I have tried using the neofb kernel framebuffer support but it
> is very slow compared to VESA.  The machine is very slow too (150Mhz)
> Pentium MMX, so every bit of speed that I can squeeze out of it is 
> important.

There's no reason that fb should perform differently than VESA.
Perhaps you need to setup the mtrr's manually? Omitting mtrr makes
video VERY slow but I don't even know if pentium mmx had mtrr..

Rich