On 23 Jan 2002, Steve Bergman wrote:
> 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.
Hmm.. Another thing to check - are you sure your power supply is
adequate ? Radeon chip has a fan on it for a reason.
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> 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
>
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