RE: Memory corruption when running VMware. (was File curruption when running VMware)

[Hong-Gunn Chew]

> Hi Petr, Andrea,
> 
> I have been trying different kernel configurations to 
> overcome this problem.  I found that turning on APIC seem to 
> work properly.  However turning on IO-APIC causes it to hang 
> just after X is started, which seems to be during the startup 
> of gdm. 
An added note is that with Local APIC on and IO-APIC off, 
I am able to start the system up, but swtiching from X to a virtual
console during a session, as well as during shutdown, causes the system
to hang.  There are no error messages that I can find.
Does anyone know the cause of the problem?

Recap of my system:
CPU:		P4 2.0A 2.0GHz
RAM:		4x256MB RDRAM PC800
MB:		ASUS P4-TE firmware:1005
		Intel i850
Disk:		IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80GB
Graphics:	ATI 7500 OEM

Distri:	RedHat 7.2
Kernel:	2.4.18
X:		Xfree 4.2.0
glibc:	2.2.4-19.3

Thanks,
Hong-Gunn