Bug 119296 - won't boot X with more than 4GB of RAM
Summary: won't boot X with more than 4GB of RAM
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 73733
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: XFree86
Version: 3.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-29 06:43 UTC by Rey Batioco
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:02:12 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
working XF86Config (4.40 KB, text/plain)
2004-03-29 06:45 UTC, Rey Batioco
no flags Details

Description Rey Batioco 2004-03-29 06:43:25 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Description of problem:
We have a tyan k8w dual opteron board configured as follows: 
 
2P 240 Opteron 
8GB memory 
RHEL3 AMD64 U1 (kernel 2.4.21-9smp) 
Nvidia NVS 280 AGP video 

kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.EL

When logging into the system at init level 5, KDE/Gnome is unable to
load.  Sorry, I forgot to include that I was already using NVIDIA's
drivers, the same version that is patched for 64bit (1.0-5332). 
  
The generic drivers allow the system to boot KDE/Gnome, but do not
allow us to use dual-dvi output to drive two flatscreens at 1600x1200.
 So using the generic XFree drivers are not a solution for RHEL3
AMD64. _________________________________________________________________

I've attached my (working) XF86Config file. 
 
I say working because when only 4GB of memory is used (in a 2+2
configuration), kde/gnome loads properly, but when 8GB of memory (4+4)
is used, gnome/kde fails to load.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFree86-4.3.0-55.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just Start the Machine and boot into level 5
    

Actual Results:  The system won't boot into Graphical Display when
using more than 4GB of RAM.  

Expected Results:  Boot into runlevel 5.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rey Batioco 2004-03-29 06:45:45 UTC
Created attachment 98917 [details]
working XF86Config

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2004-03-29 17:52:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73733 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:02:12 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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