[ltp] Help! Strange problems after adding 1GB memory

[Steve Krulewitz]

Carl --

You are right, this fixed the problem.  Except for some Eclipse 
wierdness (which i'm not sure i can blame on the new memory) everything 
seems to work now.

Do you have any idea what could cause this?

cheers,
-steve


Carl Klitscher wrote:
> Not that this is a proper fix but... a recompile without PCMCIA support may
> make things go a bit faster...
> 
> A colleague has seen the same symptoms and dropping pcmcia cured it. If you
> need pcmcia then this isn't a fix but it will possibly give you some time
> to sort out what the real problem is. Unfortunately he had to give back the
> memory stick before we could work out what the real problem was though.
> 
> Carl
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hey folks --
> 
> I just added a 1GB memory chip to my Thinkpad t40p (for a total of
> 1.5GB) but I can't seem to get things working right.  I did recompile
> the kernel with highmem support, and cat /proc/meminfo shows the right
> amount of memory.  However, when I start X, the keyboard responds very
> slowly and there was a constant beeping (the beep you get when a pc card
> is inserted) and these messages in the kernel log:
> 
> Mar  8 20:20:47 doolittle kernel: cs: socket f7b58000 timed out during
> reset.  Try increasing setup_delay.
> 
> It stops when I quit X.  And if I remove the new memory and boot the
> same kernel, everything is back to normal.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what I can try?  This is on Debian unstable
> 2.4.25.  Do you think this is kernel related or possibly XFree86 related?
> 
> thanks for any help!
> 
> cheers,
> -steve
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