Andi Kleen wrote: > 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 >
Could this be the cause of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9074 ? The machine in this bug is a Dell with 4GB of memory in 64-bit mode. Is there a log dump I could give that would be useful? dmesg or lspci ? Thanks, Adam
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