On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Edgar Merino wrote: > Hello, > > Today I upgraded my ram from 2gb to 4gb, to my surprise > opensolaris 2008.11 b109 booted but locked just before opening gdm, > so I tried different bay configurations which resulted in the same. > So I tested the new dimm and osol worked fine, added 1 dimm of the > older 1gb and it kept working, then added the the other 1gb dimm > and the system was locked again. So I booted to osol using 3gb, > disabled gdm and booted again using 4gb: it worked, but when trying > to load X manually again the system locked. No error messages were > found in /var/adm/messages nor in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > What can I do to troubleshoot this? GNU/Linux and Windows XP are > working fine.
It seems to be a 32 bit system. Is it one with a gfx chip that shares memory with the cpu ? You might be running out of memory address space. If there is some "memory hole" options in the BIOS, try playing around with them. > > System Specs > > SunOS powersolaris 5.11 snv_109 i86pc i386 i86pc > OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_109 X86. > > Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 04/23/2009 16:56:31 on-line > since 04/23/2009 15:41:51. The i386 processor operates at 2200 MHz, > and has an i387 compatible floating point processor. > Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 04/23/2009 16:56:31 on-line > since 04/23/2009 15:41:54. The i386 processor operates at 2200 MHz, > and has an i387 compatible floating point processor. > > total: 819228k bytes allocated + 275644k reserved = 1094872k used, > 986040k available > > swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 182,1 8 > 2095096 2095096 > > System Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc Memory size: 3071 > Megabytes > > Edgar Merino > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms of wisdom: 1. Go the SPARC way of life 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
