Intel Q45 problems on 7.1-STABLE (fixed)
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 24 11:10:18 PST 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:05 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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.
Hrm, I wonder if I have missed an MFC... Please send me some logs and
additional details.
Your -STABLE is current right?
robert.
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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