Yes I'm sure this is a 65bit kernel, anyone else got a clue on what the
problem might be? maybe some logs I may have not seen, this is clearly a bug
in the X window system for solaris, I just don't know how to troubleshoot
this.

Please help me out, any information would be greatly appreciated,
Edgar Merino





2009/4/24 Jasse Jansson <jasse at yberwaffe.com>

>
> On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Edgar Merino wrote:
>
>  This is a 64bit system, the chip does not share memory with the cpu, it's
>> got it's own internal dedicated memory (nvidia 8500gt). I tried looking for
>> any option in the BIOS regarding RAM but had no luck. This happens only with
>> 4gb of memory, with less than that it all works fine. What else can I do to
>> troubleshoot this? anyone else had/having a similar problem?
>>
>> Edgar Merino
>>
>
> Are you sure that you are running a 64 bit kernel ?
> If you are then you have to ask someone else for clues.
>
> The memory hole BIOS setting works for me, but that machine is a few years
> old.
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jasse Jansson escribi?:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Edgar Merino wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>>   Today I upgraded my ram from 2gb to 4gb, to my surprise opensolaris
>>>> 2008.11 b109 booted but locked just before opening gdm, so I tried 
>>>> different
>>>> bay configurations which resulted in the same. So I tested the new dimm and
>>>> osol worked fine, added 1 dimm of the older 1gb and it kept working, then
>>>> added the the other 1gb dimm and the system was locked again. So I booted 
>>>> to
>>>> osol using 3gb, disabled gdm and booted again using 4gb: it worked, but 
>>>> when
>>>> trying to load X manually again the system locked. No error messages were
>>>> found in /var/adm/messages nor in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>>>>
>>>>   What can I do to troubleshoot this? GNU/Linux and Windows XP are
>>>> working fine.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems to be a 32 bit system.
>>>
>>> Is it one with a gfx chip that shares memory with the cpu ?
>>> You might be running out of memory address space.
>>>
>>> If there is some "memory hole" options in the BIOS, try playing around
>>> with them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> System Specs
>>>>
>>>> SunOS powersolaris 5.11 snv_109 i86pc i386 i86pc
>>>> OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_109 X86.
>>>>
>>>> Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 04/23/2009 16:56:31 on-line since
>>>> 04/23/2009 15:41:51. The i386 processor operates at 2200 MHz, and has an
>>>> i387 compatible floating point processor.
>>>> Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 04/23/2009 16:56:31 on-line since
>>>> 04/23/2009 15:41:54. The i386 processor operates at 2200 MHz, and has an
>>>> i387 compatible floating point processor.
>>>>
>>>> total: 819228k bytes allocated + 275644k reserved = 1094872k used,
>>>> 986040k available
>>>>
>>>> swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 182,1 8 2095096
>>>> 2095096
>>>>
>>>> System Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc Memory size: 3071 Megabytes
>>>>
>>>> Edgar Merino
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>> 1. Go the SPARC way of life
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>
>
>
> Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle
>
> The axioms of wisdom:
> 1. Go the SPARC way of life
> 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN
> 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
>
>
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