Re: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug

From: Harold Campbell (hcamp@muerte.net)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 14:11:38 EST


On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 12:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I think this is a very very minor issue, I doubt anybody ever triggered
> > it in real life with linux.
>
> It is said that the crashes cease when the `nopentium' option
> is used, so it does appear that something is up.
>
> I does seem that the nVidia driver is usually involved.
>

If it makes any difference the only time my Athlon Thunderbird system
with Matrox G450 locks up is during quake3. No "nVidia inside(tm)".
Guess I'll toss in the nopentium option and see if it helps.

-- 
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in
the milk.
		-- Thoreau

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