From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 20: 3:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from go4.ext.ti.com (dlezb.ext.ti.com [192.91.75.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBC637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlep8.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.88]) by go4.ext.ti.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5633dH23318; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:03:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dlep8.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep8.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA18434; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:03:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep8.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA18402; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:03:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gautham ([192.168.185.126]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA06518; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 08:33:33 +0530 (IST) From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "Scott Robbins" , Cc: "FreeBSD.org - Questions" Subject: RE: Spontaneous Reboot on Startx (was Re: Problem with "shutdown -p now") Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 08:34:17 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020605052222.GA3542@scott1.homeunix.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:52 AM, Scott wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:40:07AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > Does this occur only on the A7V333 ? I switched from an A7V > (KT133A) to an > > A7V333 yesterday and now I can't run X. What exactly is the > connection of > > the MTRR to the motherboard ? I never had problems on the A7V. > > > > Gautham > > > No--I'm actually guessing that it's the problem because it's an ASUS > board and the symptoms are pretty much what was described in the PR. > > It was confirmed on the A7A266 I don't know if it was confirmed on > other ASUS boards. There would either be a panic, or most frequently, > the spontaneous reboot. > > Since then, other folks with different ASUS boards (don't remember the > models, sorry--mine is an A7A266, so that's the one to which I was > paying attention) have reported the same problem and reported that the > fix worked. > Again, the PR was reported as fixed as of late April or so (check the > PR to get the exact date, sorry, I'm rushing as I write this). > > Now, as to the connection between MTRR and the motherboard--it's > actually beyond my expertise to give you a good answer--I was only > able to do a "blackbox" so to speak solution, that is, putting in the > lines that I was directed to put in my i686_mem.c file > > Again, I would say if you did a cvsup since the first or second week > of May, that might not be the problem. > > Sorry I can't be of more use here, > Scott > > Hi Scott, Jud Adding that return statement to i686_mem.c worked. Thanx a lot. Pretty cool. This change won't have any side effects, will it ? Gautham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message