Intel Q45 problems on 7.1-STABLE (fixed)

[Daniel O'Connor]

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) 
and it seems to work fine now.

The reported value of stolen memory is still wrong however.

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