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>
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--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--
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