Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:20:56 +1000 | From | Simon Fowler <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4 & ff. blows away Xwindows with Matrox G400 and agpgart |
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 08:54:10AM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote: > Not in my case, at least for 2.4.20-pre4. > 2.4.19 works for me with nopentium, 2.4.20-pre5 fails with nopentium and works without it - I can't add anything beyond that.
> At which kernels does the nopentium become obsolete? Alan Cox mentioned some > confusion about this. Obviously the latest ones, but does this extend as far > back as 2.4.19? > > In order to close in on what changes are triggering this, I found the patch for > sched.c for -pre3 and ran that, and find that -pre3 is fine with or without > nopentium, so that narrows it to what was altered pre3 to pre4. > > There was nothing obvious in Marcelo's log of changes, so I will trawl through > the diffs themselves tonight. > > At the same time, I noticed that there seems to a fair bit of touchy > behaviour of AGP out there, so maybe what is proving fatal to me is the same as > the cause of flaky for others.
AGP/DRI has been flaky for me in all sorts of ways, but then I've been using the DRI CVS code which does lots of strange things, so I can't pin the problems on AGP . . .
Simon
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