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krjw wrote:

| Ack.  Makes you wish you could poke around in the source, eh?

Well, not really, I wouldn't understand much of it. Other more
knowledgeable people could, though.


|  Anyway,
| does this only occur when you attempt to do 3D things?  Or does it
| happen in 2D land as well?  I've been using the nvidia binary drivers
| with the geforce3 for eons with no persistant life-threatening problems.

even with 2D only.

| The only real issue I've seen thus far is related to agpgart but this
| probably has nothing to do with your problem.

well, it could be, since the "nv" driver doesn't use agp


| | At first I didn't relate this to the nvidia driver, but I've looked at
| | the kernel mailing list and everybody says that the problem is NVIDIA
| | related (I tried to contact nvidia but it seems that
| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] is redirected to /dev/null).
|
| /dev/null eh?  Hmm maybe so today but usually they respond within a day
| or two.  Most often they don't bother to read your message in entirety
| but they do (try to) respond.

I didn't get anything, not even an automated reply.


[...]


| Perhaps Mandrake tweaked the kernel a bit and broke something such that
| it doesn't get along with the nvidia code (or vice versa)?  Did you try
| or consider trying vanilla kernel source, ie, from kernel.org?

No, I though that Mandrake patched kernel was fine (probably "better
than the real thing" ;-), since nvidia provides a package for it.

|
| | The kernel is booted with the "mem=nopentium" parameter to workaround
| | the known athlon bug (or linux bug wrt athlon) with agp.
| | XFree is 4.2.0, straight from Mandrake RPMS.
|
| Call me ignorant but what exactly is the nopentium option for?

I don't remember where I got it originally, but you can find a
description of the problem here:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20020123-amd-news.html

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