Re: X hangs console since upgrade
* Robert Braddock <stormwarden@bigfoot.com> [001114 22:17]:
> > Tenth idea -- the log file mentions the machine hasn't mtrr support.
> > Perhaps this needs to be enabled in your kernel?
>
> What's MTRR anyway? I haven't changed the kernel in a while, but I'll look
> for that when I recompile it out of desperation :)
Good god, we just went through ten ideas, and not a one helped. I knew
each was lousy individually, but .. I hoped one in the middle would do
the trick.
MTRRs are, I think, memory type range registers. Maybe they are used to
implement finer-grained memory protection than segments, which is what I
think Linux uses. The option for this is somewhere near the top of the
kernel config script.
Of course, I don't know exactly what they do. :)
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