Averatec 6240 pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power

[James]

Thanks for the info.  Could you please go into a
little more detail of where i need to add this line.
And to what i need to do. Like recomple the kernel or
what. I am fairly new at this. 
Thank you
James
I hope i can get this working.

--- David Hinds <dhinds at sonic.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Daniel
> Ritz wrote:
> > hi james
> > 
> > [ please always use reply-to-all. i'm not
> subscribed to the list ]
> > 
> > you have a notebook with graphic controller
> working in shared memory mode
> > which means it uses the main memory. unfortunatley
> the is BIOS crap and
> > forgets to report that. add the following to the
> kernel command line to
> > fix the problem:
> > 	reserve=0x1e000000,0x2000000
> > it tells the kernel not to use the region from
> 480-512 MB.
> 
> I thought that this had been fixed, so the kernel
> would round up
> apparent memory sizes that were a bit smaller than a
> power of two.  
> I guess not.  It really should get fixed properly
> (even though it
> technically is not a kernel problem), because it
> generates a huge
> amount of problem reports.
> 
> -- Dave
> 



	
		
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