Subject: Re: NetBSD-4.0 RC2 startx reboots Dell Precision 490
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@jkmrc.uq.edu.au>
From: None <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
List: port-amd64
Date: 10/13/2007 11:01:26
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:57:20PM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> Hoping the problem might have gone away, I installed NetBSD/amd64 4.0 RC2=
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> on a Dell Precision 490 which used to reboot when 'startx' was executed=
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> when it was running a -current build from a few weeks ago. Unfortunately =
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> still reboots, but at least the USB keyboard seems to operate reliably no=
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> I wonder if anyone has a suggestion as to what the cure might be? It's=20
> going to be difficult for me if X won't run on it.  I've appended dmesg's=
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> output to this message.

Remove 4 to 6GiB of the RAM.  That or don't run an X server.
Or, of course, fix the real problem.

	Jonathan Kollasch

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