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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:26:49 +0000
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug
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Hi Andrew,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Steve <s.egbert@sbcglobal.net> 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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