Quoting Scott Zuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Have you had any luck getting this fixed yet? I noticed you are using an
> Athlon and presumeably an AGP GF4. Perhaps you're being bitten by the
> AMD/AGP cache bug that was discovered last year. Do a google search for
> "linux amd agp problem" and you'll get some hits that describe the problem
in
>
> detail. I think a workaround/fix made it into the kernel around the 2.4.19
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>
> 2.4.20 timeframe so you should upgrade if you have something older. Also,
> I'm not sure if the fix was general to the x86 arch or specific to only the
>
> athlon family. If your using a distros' generic i386 or i686 you might want
>
> to try recompiling the kernel for the K7 arch. Other than that the only
> thing I can think of to do is to start yanking out hardware to try and
> isolate the problem.
No, I still having these problems. I do have an Athalon chip and an AGP
graphics card. When I was using RedHat 8.0 it installed an Athalon kernel, so
I have to assume that they would have enabled the fix for the bug (although it
has a 2.4.18 kernel). Mandrake is using the 2.4.19 kernel, but I not sure what
the target architecture that it was build for is. I going to try and tweak the
BIOS setting as per some of the other messages on the list, but my guess is
that it will come down to pulling out hardware. Is there not a way to at least
narrow down the problem by looking at the kernel messages, or are errors I
getting pretty general?
Thank you,
Jesse
