From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERIgl-0001Gr-4X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:17:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9H0EKI2013594; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:14:20 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9H0EJeN031697 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:14:20 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2005 00:16:16 -0000 Received: from c154127.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [192.168.2.189]) [213.39.154.127] by mail.gmx.net (mp004) with SMTP; 17 Oct 2005 02:16:16 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25576946 Message-ID: <4352EDBE.7030503@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:18:06 +0200 From: Marco Matthies User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051014) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: mtrr: base is not aligned References: <5bdc1c8b0510151118p447b72a9la959017a0de1dd08@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0510161150r27a36415pf435d4f9ab6ea638@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0510161150r27a36415pf435d4f9ab6ea638@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 210a1e0f-5f7c-4825-9663-3fbe5027eefd X-Archives-Hash: 49068cf8a35b9d53efeb3bcd8a9392c1 Hi, i'm not an expert on this subject myself but i found it nonetheless interesting, here's what i found mostly by grepping and googling: Here's someone who is also getting these huge reported memory sizes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/12/35 Found it by googling for 983552MB, there's more there. There's is some info on mtrr's with vesafb here: /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r3/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt, line 176 Seems to suggest trying video=vesafb:nomtrr if you're using vesafb. Also some other reports seem to hint at Xorg as the culprit: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4310 and others found by googling "mtrr: type mismatch for". You might want to also grep Xorg.log for the addresses provided by 'cat /proc/mtrr' or just the prefix such as 'grep -in 0xd /var/log/Xorg.0.log' in my case, that should some results (Xorg.log doesn't seem to mention mtrr literally, as far as i can see). I'm sorry that I don't have an answer to the actual problem, but I'm very thankful for the interesting explanations about mtrr from both of you (Duncan and Mark). Cheers, Marco -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list