Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 06:19:33 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: patrick@esoltani.com, capm@gmx.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboot on Startx (was Re: Problem with "shutdown -p now") Message-ID: <GAC31LJCASSMYOI6ZGF1Y09YT08A6.3cfc9435@sparky> In-Reply-To: <20020604043328.GA3511@scott1.homeunix.net>
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6/4/2002 12:33:28 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:23:45PM -0400, Jud wrote:
>> > From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
>> > To: "patrick" <patrick@esoltani.com>, "Pascal Giannakakis"
>> > <capm@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>> > Subject: Fwd: Re: Problem with "shutdown -p now"
>> > Date: 6/3/2002 9:21:40 PM
>> >
>> > At 17:39 2002/06/03 -0700, patrick wrote:
>> >
>>
>> Errm - Scott, when I did the apm_enable,
>> remove-disable-apm-and-recompile-kernel thing (plus cd /dev and sh
>> MAKEDEV all), it solved my shutdown problem (I'd had it on my
ASUS
>> A7V333), but the next two times I tried to start the X server, my
>> machine spontaneously rebooted. Also, I'm using a boot
manager/loader
>> called BootItNG ('cause nothing else seems to grok my RAID setup
so
>> well, plus it does partition/slice moving/resizing/imaging), and both
>> times after the reboot my EMBR (extended MBR) was hosed. To
>> paraphrase W.C. Fields, on the whole, I'd rather have the shutdown
>> problem. ;-)
>>
>> Jud
>
>There's a certain humor in that. However, the ASUS MB problem with
>startx is usually easily fixed. I happen to know about this, because
>I have an ASUS
>
>There was a PR filed on it. When did you last do cvsup and
>buildworld? If it hasn't been for awhile, doing so should fix the
>startx problem, Mr. Malone has fixed it.
>
>If not, and you don't feel like doing a build world, you should be
>able to fix it by doing the following.
>Open up /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/i686_mem.c
>
>Around line 269, there's probably something like
>
>u_int cr4save;
>
>
>mrd = sc->mr_desc;
>
>In between those two lines, put
>
>return;
>
>Then recompile, and that should fix it.
>The only thing that worries me about giving this advice is that you
>didn't have the problem before. In general, it's been a problem with
>various (though not all) ASUS boards, and didn't as far as I know,
>have anything to do with apm--it was connected with MTRR.
>
>Let me know what happens, for my own knowledge (unless you've
already
>put things back as they were, fixed it and don't feel like bothering)
>
>Thanks.
>
>Scott
I *may* try it tonight, if I have time and depending on the answer to this
question: I last cvsupped and built the world this past Friday or Saturday
night. Was the fix committed before or after that?
Jud
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