On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 2:11 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:52:18 +0000 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone add any source of reliable information and/or personal > > experience to throw light on this? > > mem=nopentium tells the Linux kernel not to use the 4MB page > table performance feature. > > This is said to be needed on some AMD athlon/durons with AGP and the 2.4 > kernel. > > There is disagreement as to whether this is fix or simply a sugar pill, > as is there disagreement even to the existence of the problem/bug which > this option is said overcome. > > But should we accept at face value the existence/remedy it is for > rectification of random X lock-ups and not as a causation/prevention of > spontaneous reboots. > > Personally I run several AMD systems and I use the mem=nopentium option. > In my case I had suffered the random X lock-ups and these ceased when > I added this option. > Thank you Charles. I've put it into lilo, though it doesn't seem to help, so I guess it was probably not the problem. However, it probably does no harm to leave it there.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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