Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4 & ff. blows away Xwindows with Matrox G400 and agpgart

Simon Fowler
2002-09-12T21:27:16Z

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:50:19AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com> writes:
> >
> > Any suggestions of how to improve the error messages around the failure point
> > are welcome. Nothing is written into dmesg at the time of failure.
>
> You're booting with mem=nopentium right ? It should go away when you turn
> that off. I'm working on a fix. You can safely turn it off for now, the
> old problems that it worked around are fixed.
>
The problem goes away without mem=nopentium - I've just booted into
2.4.20-pre5aa2 and fired up X.

Simon

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