[ale] Re: system freezes again.. was [ale] question about ASUS vid cardsin RH 7.2

[Jeff Rose]

Actually I don't have the rivafb module installed so I know that isn't
the problem.  After some googlin, I've found that AMD chips have a
recently discovered bug related to its use of paging.  Apparently this
causes system lock-ups and has been reported by nvidia users.  Hmm.  The
workaround is to add the 'mem=nopentium' to grub.  The folks over at
Gentoo seem to be chasing this one.  Futher reading ....

http://www.gentoo.org/news/20020123-amd-news.html

http://lwn.net/2002/0124/kernel.php3


On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 09:07, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> An issue to be aware of with the nvidia drivers and redhat:
> 
> Do not use the kernel framebuffer. If you're running X, you'll be using
> the nvidia framebuffer driver code anyway. I'm pretty convinced these
> two will conflict if both the nvidia and the kernel framebuffer are
> running at the same time. The stock redhat kernels include the
> framebuffer module. Try unloading it and reloading the nvidia kernel
> module. 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 09:01, Jeff Rose wrote:
> > 	Well I have RH7.2 and GeForce2 MX 200 card and am still having major
> > problems with crashes.  I thought downgrading to an older driver had
> > solved my problem but it hasn't.  My next step is to go back to the
> > generic nv driver and see if that stops the crashing.  Unfortunately
> > I'll lose 3D capability.  But I need to pinpoint the problem.  Others
> > seem to be having these problems too, check out newsgroups as well as
> > nvidia's forums.  I'm not sure if this relates to the kernel RH7.2 uses
> > or if its a general bug in the driver.  But I'm leaning toward some
> > compatability issue with RH7.2 as I've not seen anyone complain about
> > the problem with another distro.  
> > 	I know I'm sick of the crashes.  Having used SuSE for 6 months or so
> > with no problems I have come to expect a life without crashing. Good
> > luck and godspeed.... 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 21:53, LANCE CROCKER wrote:
> > > hey this is just a curious question :)
> > > 
> > > I have an ASUS 7700 GeForce 2 GTS vid card w/ 32 MB DDR on it. I would like to know if any of you have ever had any problems w/ this card while running RedHat 7.2. If you have please tell or at least suggest a different card that has the same amt of power and works well with RH. 
> > > 
> > > If you haven't had any problems or are currently running RH7.2 w/ this card then please tell me how to get my to work ( besides just the simple stuff that is XConfigurator). I would really like to play tux racer on my PC :) 
> > > 
> > > anyway thanks ahead of time
> > > 
> > > lance 
> > > 
> > > P.S. : i really enjoy reading the emails on this list it is helping learn faster :)
> > 
> > 
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