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From: Jonathan Kelly <j0n@tpg.com.au>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] AMD/AGP issues
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:04:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020801120452.152e5720.j0n@tpg.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D4892A8.7030105@juniperlaw.com>

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:45:12 -0700
Greg Frank <frank@juniperlaw.com> wrote:

> Hi.  I remember when the AMD/AGP issues with Linux were first being 
> reported, you guys had some of the most comprehensive info on your site.
> 
>  Lately, I haven't seen very much info about it... although I have seen 
> several people commenting online recently that they have been using 
> Linux on recently  built AMD systems with no problems.  Since I am 
> considering putting together an AMD system pretty soon, I am curious 
> about how the situation stands at this point.  Can you please tell me if
> 
> there is a new kernel version that addresses the problem?  Also, if not,
> 
> does it help at all if you compile the kernel specifically on an AMD 
> processor?  (I'm guessing not, but it's nice to hope).
> 

I'm running a dual Athlon with ATI Fire GL 8800 and absolutely no
problems. There *is* an issue, but it is handled by passing
"mem=nopentium" to the kernel (although I don't because the drivers from
ATI automatically handle that).

Cheers.
Jonathan Kelly.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-01  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-01  1:45 [gentoo-dev] AMD/AGP issues Greg Frank
2002-08-01  2:04 ` Jonathan Kelly [this message]
2002-08-01  2:20 ` Brian Webb

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