Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:11:31 +1000 | From | Allan Duncan <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4 & ff. blows away Xwindows with Matrox G400 and agpgart |
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Allan Duncan wrote: > > Simon Fowler wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:50:19AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com> writes: > > > > > > > > Any suggestions of how to improve the error messages around the failure point > > > > are welcome. Nothing is written into dmesg at the time of failure. > > > > > > You're booting with mem=nopentium right ? It should go away when you turn > > > that off. I'm working on a fix. You can safely turn it off for now, the > > > old problems that it worked around are fixed. > > > > > The problem goes away without mem=nopentium - I've just booted into > > 2.4.20-pre5aa2 and fired up X. > > Not in my case, at least for 2.4.20-pre4.
Errm. Turns out I ran the same test twice, both with nopentium.
So, in summary, nopentium doesn't break 2.4.20-pre3 and earlier, breaks 2.4.20-pre4 and later.
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