Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:30:25 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Frustrated with Linux, Asus, and nVidia, and AMD |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> writes: > >> Ok - I had a bad day today struggling with hardware. Having said that >> I'm somewhat frustrated with the lack of progress of Linux getting it >> right with Asus, nVidia, and AMD processors right. >> >> I still have to run pci=nommconf to keep the server from locking >> up. That's with both 939 pin and AM2 motherboards. >> >> This bug remains unresolved: >> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6975 >> >> So what's up with the no progress? > > The bug report only references ancient kernels (2.6.15, 2.6.17) How do you know there is no > progress?
2.6.18 is the latest released kernel, I don't think calling one release back "ancient" is really advancing the solution. The problem seems to have been reported in August, and is still not fixed, I do understand that he would feel there is no progress.
How long will you wait before putting in the fix Marc Perkel suggested, perhaps with a warning logged that it's a band-aid? Many users will not be astute enough to find this discussion, the bug report, the fix, configure and build a kernel, etc. And not all distributions will address it either.
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