Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:49:58 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug |
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Steve Brueggeman wrote:
> I AM NOT stating that this is necessarily the Athelon bug exposed by > gentoo, but it appears that there are enough people complaining about > unstable systems, becoming stable by running with the mem=nopentium. > It also appears that a significant number of them are also running > Nvidia AGP graphics adapters.
Daniel Robbins, William Lee Irwin and myself were on the phone with people from AMD today.
One possible cause for this problem was already tracked down a while ago; this problem isn't the fault of any particular part of the system (CPU, OS, AGP or graphics driver) but simply a consequence of how these things work together. Of course we don't know if this particular bug is the one hitting Linux systems with nvidia.
I won't post my poorly explained version of the story here as the AMD guys are working on releasing their well-written version of the story somewhere in the next few days...
kind regards,
Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
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