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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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