[Lvlug] Bug in Athlon regarding AGP

[Dann S. Washko]

Well, it's good to know the bug has been caught.  By the time I have an
athalon, hopefully the kernel will be patch appropriately. 

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:00:09 -0500
<stuart@boreens.net> wrote:

> I think it was for all cpus above 586
> I was getting lockups under my custom 2.4.16 kernel and I 
> compiled it for Athlon.
> Stuart
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:32:57 -0500
> >From: "Dann S. Washko" <dann@thelinuxlink.net>  
> >Subject: Re: [Lvlug] Bug in Athlon regarding AGP  
> >To: lvlug@thelinuxlink.net
> >
> >Apparently there is still some debate whether as to bugs in 
> the Nvidia
> >drivers; since others are experiencing problems with 
> non-athalon/duron
> >boards.  
> >
> >It's good, though, that this bug was finally weeded out by 
> the Linux
> >community.  Amd was aware of it for a year-and-a-half.  
> There was a win2k
> >patch.
> >
> >I was wondering, though, that it said people using pentium 
> optimization in
> >the kernel had this problem  What if you configured your 
> kernel for
> >Athalon, not pentium?  
> >
> >On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:49:07 -0500
> ><stuart@boreens.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I had problems with linux on my athlon/nvidia geforce2 
> system.
> >> I would get lockups and x crashes when I used accelerated 
> 3d
> >> and 1600x1200 resolution. I figured it was a bug in the 
> Nvidia
> >> drivers but apparently there is a bug in the Athlon cpu!
> >> According to this at http://www.gentoo.org   you need to 
> run
> >> the system with the kernel parameter mem=nopentium.
> >> I just rebooted after adding the line to grub and I just
> >> played Tuxracer at 1600x1200 without locking up!!!
> >> There was an article on slashdot that pointed me to 
> gentoo's site.
> >> Anybody running linux on an athlon should use this 
> parameter
> >> for now.
> >> 
> >> Stuart
> >> 
> >> 
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