Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability | Date | Tue, 1 May 2001 13:57:54 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> when I add USE_3DNOW to the K6 section and reboot, KDE hangs when > I click on any button in my launch bar (vanilla KDE 2.0). It > does NOT hang the system, though. Restarting Xwindows does not > help,
The K6 USE_3DNOW has two problems
1. It doesnt work on a CPU with fxsave (my bug and its fixed in -ac) 2. Its not a performance win.
#2 doesn't matter for testing
> [3] When I add 3DNOW to any option in [2] w/ the Athlon MMX opt, > the instability is evident after root is mounted and startup > scripts begin executing. Sometimes the system can make it through > other times it cannot.
And I still have no problem reporters with non VIA chipsets....
Alan
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