Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug (

[Steve <s.egbert@sbcglobal.net>]

Daniel Drake wrote:

> 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.)
>>
>
>>> 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
>
Patched + removed VESAFB from config.

The mtrr patch in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77674 appears 
to fixes the problem.  No further mtrr debug outputs occurred.   Clean 
boot output now for 2.6.10-r4 + mtrr-debug.patch.

Will try again with VESAFB re-enabled and post further results @ 
bugs.gentoo.org (if any).

THX!

Steve