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    SubjectRe: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug
    On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Steve Brueggeman wrote:

    > I AM NOT stating that this is necessarily the Athelon bug exposed by
    > gentoo, but it appears that there are enough people complaining about
    > unstable systems, becoming stable by running with the mem=nopentium.
    > It also appears that a significant number of them are also running
    > Nvidia AGP graphics adapters.

    Daniel Robbins, William Lee Irwin and myself were on the
    phone with people from AMD today.

    One possible cause for this problem was already tracked
    down a while ago; this problem isn't the fault of any
    particular part of the system (CPU, OS, AGP or graphics
    driver) but simply a consequence of how these things
    work together. Of course we don't know if this particular
    bug is the one hitting Linux systems with nvidia.

    I won't post my poorly explained version of the story
    here as the AMD guys are working on releasing their
    well-written version of the story somewhere in the next
    few days...

    kind regards,

    Rik
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