On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 13:56, Brian Paul wrote: > > FYI, the new issue if Linux Journal (february, page 78) has a technical > support question regarding stability of a Soyo K7V Dragon/1.4GHz Athlon > system. The system runs fine with 1GB of ram but is flaky with 1.5GB > > The responses to this problem basically ask if the one of the memory > modules might be bad, or if one of the memory slots might be defective, > or if the sytems may not be able to reliable power that much memory.
Thanks for the reply, Brian. :-) Yes. Others have suggested that some boards do not like 3 dimm slots filled. Mine is *supposed* to be able to handle it from what I can tell. > > > Is your system stable with 1.5GB of RAM when X is not running? > Or, when X is running, but the DRI is disabled? I can bring the system up without X and run 'bonnie -s 2047M' concurrently with a kernel compile (make -j 16) along with 'top' and various interactive console apps. I ran through 2 complete compiles and everything seemed rock solid. I then brought up X and started a 3D app and locked up immediately. I will disable DRI and see if 2D X is then completely stable. I believe I have tried this in the past and found that without DRI enabled at all, 2D is stable but I'm not certain. For referencence the testing that I am doing today is with XFree 4.2-mdk from cooker and vanilla kernel 2.4.17. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
