From: James Cassidy <jcassidy@cs.kent.edu>
To: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA Northbridge Workaround in 2.4.18 Causing Video Problems
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:33:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020227223301.GA632@qfire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020226195730.BD7691B93C@mail.shorewall.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020226195730.BD7691B93C@mail.shorewall.net>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:57:30AM -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>
> System is an Athlon 1.2GZ with VIA KT133 Northbridge and VT82C686 Southbridge. This is a
> Compaq Presario with onboard S3 Savage Video that uses 8 or 16mb of system RAM as Video
> RAM. Prior to my installing 2.4.18, I have experienced none of the Athlon/VIA problems
> that have plagued other users (including the one addressed by the workaround).
>
> With 2.4.18:
Odd, I have had constant problems with crashes when ever I stressed
my memory system with Athlon kernel selected in the kernel config. Same
machine, Compaq Presario 700 series. Usually a kernel compile was enough
to cause an opps on one of these kernels.
When the path in 2.4.18 in pre1 or pre2 don't remember, it fixed the
problem on my Compaq Presario 700. I've been running the 2.4.18 series
since the patch was added and as of today I have not experienced another
opps of this kind with the Athlon option enabled in the kernel.
I'll compile a 2.4.18 kernel without the patch tonight and see if I
can generated the crash again.
I've never seen the VGA console go berserk, and I used it pretty
often.
Although I have seen vesafb generate noise on the console, never looked
into it much, because it usually could easily be cleared. I've never noticed
any flicker in vesafb.
-- James Cassidy (QFire)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-27 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 19:57 VIA Northbridge Workaround in 2.4.18 Causing Video Problems Tom Eastep
2002-02-26 20:42 ` Vincent Bernat
2002-02-26 21:19 ` Mark Cooke
2002-02-27 15:12 ` Tom Eastep
2002-02-27 16:29 ` Vincent Bernat
2002-02-27 2:27 ` Steven Walter
2002-02-27 22:33 ` James Cassidy [this message]
2002-02-27 22:45 ` Tom Eastep
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2002-02-27 18:01 Alex Davis
2002-02-27 21:26 ` Mark Cooke
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