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PatrickPowell · 06-11-10, 05:57 PM

I was just looking at another posting, issues with 4GB of RAM on a system.

The suggestion was to put the following in /boot/loader.conf:

machdep.disable_mtrrs="1"

I did this, rebooted, ran 'startx' and X now starts up.

From the FreeBSD loader(8) man page:
machdep.disable_mttrs Disable the use of i686 MTRRs (x86 only)

I am surprised that this was necessary...

06-11-10, 05:57 PM	#2
PatrickPowell Registered User Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2	Re: Dell Precision M6500 + FreeBSD 7.3 or 8.0, FX2800m system locks up I was just looking at another posting, issues with 4GB of RAM on a system. The suggestion was to put the following in /boot/loader.conf: machdep.disable_mtrrs="1" I did this, rebooted, ran 'startx' and X now starts up. From the FreeBSD loader(8) man page: machdep.disable_mttrs Disable the use of i686 MTRRs (x86 only) I am surprised that this was necessary...