Hi.

From: Nate Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450 X server crashes
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:36:50 -0500

> Specifically, it affects kernels compiled with pentium optimizations
> running on Athlon/Durons.  if this affects you, you can fix it temporarily
> by appending 'mem=nopentium' to your append string in lilo.conf (if you 
> use lilo, of course)

The bug didn't got confirmed by the kernel hackers, yet. Using this
option may only change the timings - and so make the crash only less
likely. But there is still a discussion whether there is s.th. to fix
in Linux or not. - It might be your power-supply wich simply doens't
perform that well ...

I had no crashes using a g450 with XFree-4.1 or 4.2 on my
Athlon-600/Irongate or AthlonXP-1700+/SiS735 ... even in dual-head and
xinerama. (But I do not run such a death-patched Gentoo kernel ...)

> > > The release notes from RedHat for 7.1 specifically state that
> > > dual-head operation for the G450 is not supported. Is there anything
> > > special required to prevent these crashes? Has XFree86 4.1 dealt
> > > with this problem?
> 
> I definitely use the G450 with DH under 4.1, among many many other people,
> so yes I'd say so.

k33p h4ck1n6
  Ren�

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