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#! rnews 2009 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!netsys.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!usenet From: Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Memory upgrade causes reboot Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 21:37:14 +0000 Organization: Atlantic Systems Group Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31B4AC8A.41C67EA6@ASG.unb.ca> References: <31B430BD.41C6@ASG.unb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.164.16.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Peter Howlett wrote: > > This is interesting. I run 2.1R on a 486DX2/66 with VESA > EIDE and Mach64. I used to have 16MB (with 32M swap) and > everything worked wonderfully. I added another 16 and 4 > MB simm, system comes up great but when I start X, crash-ola. > Hmmm. No other problems than that... (yes I am planning to > add more swap, but just because I havent done it yet, that > shouldnt cause the system to not run X anymore right?) Found my problem, XF86Config device section MemBase was set to 0x02000000 (to aviod Xserver hanging problems when I only had 16Meg and set Membase to 0x80000000). Now that I have 36MB and set the MemBase back to 0x80000000, it works fine again. Funny, 0x02000000 puts the aperture at 64M. I dont have that much memory, wonder why it would cause a problem? (Maybe it has something to do with mem+swap?) Anyway, Im rambling so I'll just end this... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Howlett Atlantic Systems Group E-Mail: Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca Fredericton, N.B. Canada http://www.ASG.unb.ca/personal/ph.html Phone: (506) 447-3050 PGP Key ID: 60F2EEC1 Fax: (506) 453-5004