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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
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:00:35 +0100."
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:12:43 +0100
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sorry. mixed two config keywords. it should be:

	*maxmem=number


Axel.

> 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
> >