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Hoshimaru
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 Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: High Memory enabled kernel fails xfree86 |
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I've installed 1GB RAM in my system last week. I didn't notice that I only had about 900MB available until a friend told me...
Anyway, when I compile my kernel 2.4.25 with highmem 4GB and highio, I can't start X anymore.
I couldn't find any relevant information on the forum and niether did Google help a lot.
Also, modprobe ntfs and nfs should fail as well (I don't have nfs, and ntfs in compiled in m y kernel).
Who knows how to deal with this issue. |
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nyteryda
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: High Memory enabled kernel fails xfree86 |
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| Hoshimaru wrote: | I've installed 1GB RAM in my system last week. I didn't notice that I only had about 900MB available until a friend told me...
Anyway, when I compile my kernel 2.4.25 with highmem 4GB and highio, I can't start X anymore.
I couldn't find any relevant information on the forum and niether did Google help a lot.
Also, modprobe ntfs and nfs should fail as well (I don't have nfs, and ntfs in compiled in m y kernel).
Who knows how to deal with this issue. |
is it anything todo with this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=51571&highlight=highmem+4gb
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Hoshimaru
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry for the late response, but it's really the same he or she has. |
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nyteryda
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are you using nvidia ? if so did you forget to "emerge nvidia-kernel" after updateing your kernel ?
are you using the gentoo sources of the vanilla ? (if gentoo then try the vanilla sources)
also what error message are you getting ?
if you look though the /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or xfree equlivant) does it say error any where ? or that it faild to load something ?
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Hoshimaru
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I've merged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx afterwards.
As for the kernel it's kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r2 with a special patch for hpt372a chips. It's the only kernel I know that works more or less with that highpoint ide raid card... in normal ide mode ......
I'd try a 2.6 kernel but I'm afraid I'll ruin my working system with it. Losing mdraid and stuff would be catastrophic  |
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nyteryda
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| Hoshimaru wrote: | I've merged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx afterwards.
As for the kernel it's kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r2 with a special patch for hpt372a chips. It's the only kernel I know that works more or less with that highpoint ide raid card... in normal ide mode ......
I'd try a 2.6 kernel but I'm afraid I'll ruin my working system with it. Losing mdraid and stuff would be catastrophic |
The reason i ask is because i had a problem with, High Mem and SMP, I think and it was the gentoo 2.4 kernel, once i swaped to the vanilla kernel i was fine.
As far as 2.6 goes, can you not, keep your current kernel and set up a 2.6 as a seperate option in your grub/lilo config ?
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