Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:11:12 -0500 | From | Tom Hornyak <> | Subject | Re: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug |
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There is a known bug in AMD processors and using AGP - info was posted on slashdot.org and www.gentoo.org. In short, fix by passing mem=nopentium to the kernel aat boot time (using GRUB or LILO)
Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > > Rene Rebe wrote: > > > Here I only see one Athlon system crashing all the time. This is a > > 700Mhz Duron runnign in a Asus A7V. With a 2.4.16 kernel compiled with > > Athlon optimization all applications are crashing all time (sed, cc, > > gcc, sawfish - all. Simply sig-11), with a 2.4.4 kernel (using the > > same .config) it seem to run just fine. 4 passes of memtest86 showed > > no error, either ... > > > > I see the broken via chips involved most of the time. > > > > We will try a i386-only optimized kernel tomorrow. > > Hmmm... i'm running a Thunderbird 800 on an A7V (not the A7V133) without > any major problems, with 2.4.17 and athlon optimized. > Of course i have the latest BIOS from Asus (1009), with earlier ones i > did have some AGP-related instabilities, with a GeForce2 GTS. > Of course i also flashed the GF2, just the combination of both things > solved my problems, though now my ASUS GF2 is a "generic nvidia" one. > I compiled on the same run a full XFree86 4.2.0 + GNOME 1.4 without > even one coredump / sig-11, and this is a FULLY compiled gnome. > I have 2 out of 3 dimm slots populated with 256+64 pc133 dimms, > el cheapo brand, and pass memtest86 without a hitch. > HDD is an issue... i got en masse corruption once, but then it's no > wonder with the good record IBM's 75GXP's have... (somehow traced > to ext3+unmask irq on). It corrupted beyond his limits, destroying > the windos partition data also. Now i'm with ext3 but without unmasking, > and got no corruption so far. > I'm using NVIDIA_kernel #2314 forced to AGP 4x w/ SBA & FW on, > though no serious 3D load beyond xscreensaver eyecandy, with no > problems whatsoever. > Distro is (kinda) redhat 7.2, everything compiled with gcc 2.96, EXCEPT > xfree that doesn't like it very much (which was compiled with 2.95.3). > - > 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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