Re: Xorg doesn't work on NetBSD 5.0.1 (amd64) Xen dom0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:53:47PM +0200, Helge Mühlmeier wrote:
> Helge Mühlmeier schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a problem here to get X working on my workstation. It is a  
>> amd64 NetBSD 5.0.1 with installed xenkernel33 (from pkgsrc 2009Q3) and  
>> dom0 kernel from ftp.netbsd.org.
>>
>> With GENERIC kernel X is working fine ( I tried nvidia and radeon  
>> cards; both PCIe). If I start with dom0- kernel the workstation is  
>> booting and I have a console.
>> But "startx" don't work anymore... I get a blank screen and have to do  
>> a hard reset...
>>
>> Do somebody have solved that problem?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Helge
>>
> Hi,
>
> I found a workaround for my problem... I have 8 GB of Ram installed but  
> I have to give xen-kernel only 4 GB (with more Ram X didn't start).
> I added "mem=4G" to my /boot.cfg...
>
> menu=Boot Xen with 1GB for dom0:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0  
> console=pc;multiboot /xenkernel mem=4G dom0_mem=1024M
>
> Does somebody knows if there is a patch to be able to use the total  
> amount of ram?

Hum, I think there have been fixes for issues with X and the 4Gb
barrier. Could you try a recent 5.0_STABLE  system ?

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