From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 10:35:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D46D106568D for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:35:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82AE68FC3C for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:35:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.localnet (ppp121-45-204-111.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.204.111]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1OAZCk1087458 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:05:12 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:05:04 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <200902231200.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200902231200.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2206591.Qr5RbBWDNr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902242105.05667.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Subject: Re: Intel Q45 problems on 7.1-STABLE (fixed) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:35:16 -0000 --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--