----- Original Message ----- From: Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: תומר אייזנמן <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 11:15 AM Subject: Re: memory problem > > > i have an old 133MHZ pentium with 32Mb of ram. > > my linux (red-hat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5-15) detects only 13-14MB. > > i solved this problem with linux mem=32M at lilo prompt. > > it's seems to work fine but when i try to run the command startx > > it gives me an error message: segmentation fault and halt's. > > is there any other way to solve this. > > It sounds as if you have memory hole enabled (usually done for isa vga > cards). If you don't need the hole, disable it in the bios. > > If you do have an isa vga card you have a few options: > 1. disable the memory hole, so the card can't be used in linear mode, so > XF86 will only run at 8bpp. svgalib (and maybe commercial X servers) > can still use high color modes. > 2. Enable the memory hole and use only 14MB of ram. > 3. Enable the hole, and either upgrade to 2.3, or look for a e820 patch > for 2.2 kernel. > > -- > Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yep, that was the problem. i disabled it and it works fine now. thank you all. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
