Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: amd nvidia and mem=nopentium | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:05:45 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Hi, i have system dual athlon XP 1900+ system and a nvidia graphic board : > I need to use the mem=nopentium kernel parameter in order to run X without > crashes. I'd like to know : > 1- what are the consequences of 'mem=nopentium' ? Any performance loss ?
Yes. On the whole probably not a lot. You are running XP not MP processors and the like so you are obviously not too worried about stability. You might want to see if it actually does crash without nopentium.
> i intend to use a gigabit ethernet adapter on this box. > 2- is there any fix going on that i should monitor ?
Some gige cards don't seem to work with some dual athlon bioses. Other than that it should be fine - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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