From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] aux/vga: vgactlw: <linear 0x100000 0x0>: not enough free address space
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:00:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503181000.j2IA0Ze14252@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:48:59 +0100." <200503180148.j2I1mxB11575@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>
for the archives:
likely the added memory caused the memory sizing
to find the vga memory as real memory.
I solved this by adding a line to plan9.ini
*maxpercent=hex-number
where hex-number is the amount of physical memory.
(see the discusion of *maxpercent in plan9.ini(8) )
Axel.
I wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade the memory in an (old) laptop.
> with the original memory config it runs fine.
>
> However, replacing the original 16Mb sodimm by a 64Mb one,
> or eve adding second 64Mb sodimm
> causes aux/vga to fail with the following message:
>
> aux/vga: vgactlw: <linear 0x100000 0x0>: not enough free address space
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-18 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-18 1:48 Axel Belinfante
2005-03-18 10:00 ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2005-03-18 10:12 ` Axel Belinfante
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