On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:44:09PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > My impression was that "mem=nopentium" was only applicable > to older kernels. >Basically, the large page extension on AMD > processors behaves differently than on Intel. Linux kernel > did not properly support it (nor did Microsoft Windows, for that > matter). I thought that newer 2.4 kernels had workarounds for > the Athlon, but "mem=nopentium" was required to disable the broken > support altogether on older kernels. Perhaps this is a regression > in 2.6. > I also knew that "mem=nopentium" was deprecated with 2.6.xx kernels, do you know if this issue has been fixed in 2.6 kernels ?? actually, I discovered that my memory was quite bad, at least one hundred errors with memtest !! so instabilities with AGP could be related not specificly to AGP software but to the fact that AGP uses one bad memory area -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------* | Edouard DEBRY | | Ph-D student at E.N.P.C - C.E.R.E.A http://www.enpc.fr/cerea/ | | | | 21 Rue Nobel, Cité Descartes TEL : 33 1 64 15 21 52 | | 77455 CHAMPS SUR MARNE MAIL : debry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | | | | Thesis subject: MODELING OF AN ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION | *-----------------------------------------------------------------* _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
