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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Cyrix setup
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > - NO_LOCK (Coma bug workaround): Does anyone have a working solution
> > (Alan mentioned the original one broke some X servers)?
>
> There is one. I think I have it saved somewhere, it does some magic in/out
> operations on the chip to serialise xchg

I can't help feeling that if X has a problem with NO_LOCK it should
go to the trouble of making sure it is off. After all, there is
nothing to say that a BIOS couldn't have set it (not that I know
of one that does)...

Mike

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