Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:05:04 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Q45 problems on 7.1-STABLE (fixed)
Message-ID:  <200902242105.05667.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200902231200.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200902231200.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart2206591.Qr5RbBWDNr
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

On Monday 23 February 2009 12:00:30 Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Initially it hung solid when X started, however when I reduced the amount
> of RAM to 2Gb it worked OK. Unfortunately if I exit X, or go to the text
> console and back to X then the machine locks solid (no numlock, have to
> hard reset).
>
> I note that dmesg reports 32764k of stolen memory, however I set the DVMT
> RAM to 128Mb (and 256Mb, makes no difference). Also the aperture size is
> always reported as 256Mb no matter what it actually is in the BIOS.

Someone in a private email suggested I update the BIOS (went from 63 to 73)=
=20
and it seems to work fine now.

The reported value of stolen memory is still wrong however.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C


--nextPart2206591.Qr5RbBWDNr
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc 
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBJo81Z5ZPcIHs/zowRAnHAAJ9bJXG8VhihgDM8ZLx+Co2y+YJVEwCgiipm
u472womlyzmrgfYUzi9f3XM=
=p8a9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--nextPart2206591.Qr5RbBWDNr--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200902242105.05667.doconnor>