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Date:      Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:26:52 -0600
From:      "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        jkendall@Celestica.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rel 3.3 on ThinkPad 600E 
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19991209162652.0108cbe0@midwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199912092203.OAA01492@mass.cdrom.com>
References:  <Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:17:08 CST."             <3.0.5.32.19991209111708.0119de80@midwest.net>

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When I did a quick search about this it "looked" like the thinkpads were
still having problems. Has anyone else had any luck? I don't wanna
recompile.. :) 


At 02:03 PM 12/9/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>Try removing the MAXMEM line and instead adding 'options VM86'.   I'm 
>still looking for reports from people about this; we ought to be getting 
>this right in 4.0 (but of course nobody is going to test _that_ until 
>after we release it... sheesh).
>
>
>> This may sound a little strange but subtract 1024 and recompile with;
>> options 	MAXMEM=162816
>> 
>> I had the same problem with my 600E and 128 megs or ram...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 10:46 AM 12/9/99 -0500, jkendall@Celestica.com wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi all.
>> >
>> >I have a problem with FreeBSD 3.3 running on my ThinkPad 600E (160Meg,
>> 6.4Giga,
>> >etc)
>> >
>> >While running with 32Meg, I configured the kernel with
>> >
>> >options        MAXMEM=163840
>> >
>> >Now it boots with 160Meg but almost randomly freezes.
>> >
>> >Just before it freezes, sometimes it will sound 5 short beeps.
Sometimes it
>> >won't.
>> >
>> >Any thoughts ???
>> >
>> >
>> >-
>> >Jerry
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> 
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