On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:36, Shaochun Wang wrote:
> The boot process in my ibm thinkpad laptop always says mtrr overlaps.
> The following is the output
> $ dmesg | grep mtrr
>
> mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
> mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
> mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
> mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
> mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
>
> I don't know whether this is a problem. Any suggetstion?

I have the same problem (for the last few years, using both open & closed 
source radeon drivers).  The last time I looked for a fix it involved 
building a special initrd to allocate memory manually (or something like 
that).  I'd love an easier fix if it exists.

PS.  Can you Shift+PageUp/Down when in console?  I can't and assume that this 
is related.
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Regards,
Mick