Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug
From: Daniel Drake
Date: Fri Jan 14 2005 - 15:35:51 EST
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Morton wrote:
Steve <s.egbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For the Athlon 2100, I get the following outputs and then the VGA
console is frozen from further output (but it doesn't prevent the full
bootup into X windows session of which I am able to resume normal
Linux/X session, but not able to regain any virtual console session.)
hm. Not sure what could have caused that.
This may be a problem in Gentoo's kernels, we offer an experimental version of
vesafb...
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4kiB (<<-- this line is
repeated 20 times).
Could you add this so we can track down the culprit?
I got another user who reported the same problem to test the patch, the result is:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=48451
(original bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/77674)
I will confirm whether or not this is a gentoo-specific problem or not and let
you know.
Daniel
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