On Friday 26 January 2007 23:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Running on a Intel Core 2 Duo, with 4G of memory. > If I enable BIOS remapping (to allow used of all the memory) > then the system boots but dies when X starts. If I turn off remapping > (so system only hase 3.5G of memory), then everything is fine. > > Looks like something in the video (DRM) drivers can't handle > 4G of memory.
Does the system run stable (in particularly when you fill all memory) without X? We have had cases in the past where the BIOS just got memory remapping wrong and some memory areas caused hangs. These were on AMD, not Intel, but older Intel desktop chipsets didn't do > 4GB addresses at all and there might be new trouble with that. -Andi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
