From: Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org>
To: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4 & ff. blows away Xwindows with Matrox G400 and agpgart
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:20:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020913012056.GA10432@himi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D811B12.A6615688@bigpond.com>
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 08:54:10AM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
> Not in my case, at least for 2.4.20-pre4.
>
2.4.19 works for me with nopentium, 2.4.20-pre5 fails with nopentium
and works without it - I can't add anything beyond that.
> At which kernels does the nopentium become obsolete? Alan Cox mentioned some
> confusion about this. Obviously the latest ones, but does this extend as far
> back as 2.4.19?
>
> In order to close in on what changes are triggering this, I found the patch for
> sched.c for -pre3 and ran that, and find that -pre3 is fine with or without
> nopentium, so that narrows it to what was altered pre3 to pre4.
>
> There was nothing obvious in Marcelo's log of changes, so I will trawl through
> the diffs themselves tonight.
>
> At the same time, I noticed that there seems to a fair bit of touchy
> behaviour of AGP out there, so maybe what is proving fatal to me is the same as
> the cause of flaky for others.
AGP/DRI has been flaky for me in all sorts of ways, but then I've been
using the DRI CVS code which does lots of strange things, so I can't
pin the problems on AGP . . .
Simon
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-09-12 9:50 ` Linux 2.4.20-pre4 & ff. blows away Xwindows with Matrox G400 and agpgart Andi Kleen
2002-09-12 21:32 ` Simon Fowler
2002-09-12 22:54 ` Allan Duncan
2002-09-13 1:20 ` Simon Fowler [this message]
2002-09-13 3:11 ` Allan Duncan
2002-09-12 1:56 Allan Duncan
2002-09-12 7:51 ` Simon Fowler
2002-09-12 9:12 ` Nuitari
2002-09-12 23:24 ` Allan Duncan
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