Re: cyrix detection still a bit porked in 2.2.0-pre1

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:12:23 +0000 (GMT)


> I did all exactly as the guidance of the README. I seemed that
> all had passed the configuration, compilation and the installation.
> However, when I restart my computer (Pentium II-300, Memory=256M),
> I found that there are two problems remained as follows:
>
> (1) The usable maxmum Memory is not 256M, but 64M.

Meaning you need to pass "mem=256M" to the boot command line to make it
see all of RAM ?

> (2) X-window could not be used anymore.
>
What errors do you now get with X windows ?

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