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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