[99087] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo)
Thu Nov 12 08:51:10 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:49:13 +0100
From: Leo <leonardo@dinamicmultimedia.es>
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CC: Joerg Mertin <smurphy@dspecialists.de>
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Leo wrote:
> > I understand what you mean. You meant, your System did recognise only 16MB
> > of Ram. Well, thatīs bad. Try adding at the LILO Prompt: mem=128M
> > or in the lilo.conf file at the beginning: append = "mem=128M"
> > This will force your System to take 128MB of Ram regarding System Memory.
> > Beware, that if you have bad Ram, itīll crash your system.
>
> > > > > - I compiled a kernel, setting to 'no' the option "Use only lower 16 MB" (or so) as well as setting SMP=1 in the resulting Makefile, but neither the 128 MB appear anywhere nor does the SMP work correctly (crashes very much). Sometimes it just blocks
> > and
> >
> > Wont make any difference, since the kernels have Auto-Memory-size
> > detection -> The kernel has, so it might be that this routine has
> > problems detecting the memory your System uses. Try adding the Size at
> > the lilo Prompt.
> >
>
> Ok, so that's it. Now, how on earth could I imagine it had to do with lilo, not being an expert and not knowing all the details about everything? I'll try it, thanks a lot.
>
The LILO option didn't work.
I did change settings in the BIOS, not the 15-16M Memory Hole (that was already disabled), but the A20 speed from fast to normal (managed through keyboard chipset --strange!). Now I have 64M instead of 16, but still I don't have all 128M. There's another option
I tried to change, but didn't work: it's the AGP Aperture size. Know what this is?
Anyway, I haven't downloaded kernel 2.2.126/7, I'll try with those and see what happens.
Is there any drawback in using 2.2.126/7 ?
> >
> > The Server serie is called: XFCom_Matrox, so itÄs not the SVGA-Server,
> > sorry ;)
> >
>
> Ok, so that's different, I'll look at that. Haven't seen anything about that in the docs.
> Now I understand the XConfigurator not detecting my video-mem size... I don't remember seeing this server in my RedHat distribution.
>
Got it and works great! :))) There's an rpm version too!
Just one question, aren't these servers included in RedHat dist?
Also, I had to SUID root on the server XFCom_Matrox, even though it advised strongly not to... know why? RedHat's servers have SUID root permision. I wasn't able to use xdm (no experience), so I SUIDed it.
Thanx,
Leo
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