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From: "Mark D. Smith" <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
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Subject: Re: Mach 32 kills FreeBSD-2.1.5R
To: lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:33:52 -0800 (PST)
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> My 2.1.5-R installation dies when starting the Mach32 Server after upgrading 
> to 32MB of memory. The systems runs stable when using the "nolinear" option.
> The graphics card is a (ATI Ultra Graphics Pro with 2 MB, EISA version).

Greetings,

This sounds like the horrid "memory arpature" problem.  What you'll need to
do is boot with a dos floppy or off a dos partition if you have one and run
the ATI mach32 installation/setup procedure.  Configure the card and turn
the memory arpature off or bump it up over the 32MB.

Mark