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Description of problem: GDM Doesn't start - black screen when 4G memory installed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 4 G memory 2. Install Fedora ( which works OK ) 3. Reboot ( X appears to start ie little arrow appears and then screen goes black ) Actual results: GDM doesn't start - get a black screen Expected results: GDM appears Additional info: This is a 915 Intel motherboard with integrated graphics Installed F9 with 1G memory - everything worked OK Installed 4G machines gets black screen Re -installed F9 from DVD with 4G in machine to see what would happen - It installed perfectly ( graphically ) and after re-boot failed to get to GDM Took out 2G and machine now works again. Possibly not GDM but I couldn't think of any other catagory
Can you attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
and dmesg and lspci -vv
How? I get as far as the arrow with the circulating blue blobs then the screen goes black. The keyboard seems to be working but I can't switch to another console M
Created attachment 305649 [details] dmesg
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OK forget that last message the machine works well enough to SSH into so here are the files M
Created attachment 305653 [details] Xorg.0.log
wierd.. does booting with mem=2048M stop it? can you try and find a mem=XM lines where it breaks? this chipset can't actually reference 4GB of RAM, I personally thought it had a 2GB limit :), but it seems to see more for you..
I checked on the Intel site and they say it supports 4G Just to confirm I am doing this right :- During boot press a key Press 'a' to modify kernel arguments Add mem=2048M to the end of the line Press return Made no difference - X still hangs the same way Took out one chip so memory = 3G - BIOS didn't like it at all and complained that it should have matched amounts of ram but Fedora runs OK ( KInfoCenter - spelling !! tut !! ) reports 3,181,236,224 bytes M
Don't know if this is interesting or not With 3G in machines updated it - then put it back to 4G. Fedora now won't start ( as before ) so I booted a Ubuntu live CD 8.04RC 2.6.24 ( it's the only one I have ) and it starts but System Monitor only reports 3G of ram - the bios is happy that there is 4G in there M
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