[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] New 2.4.18_pre3 (2.4.18_pre3+mjc+XFS) kernel and Athlon bug workaround

[Daniel Mettler]

hi all,

On 18 Jan 2002, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> This kernel is *excellent* (it's basically the -mjc kernel plus XFS) and
> contains tons of security-related enhancements, including:

thanks a lot! gentoo developers do a great work! i enjoy using
gentoo very much as it is the best distro available and it has a
nice community :) i hope i will be able to contribute one day
too.

> He said that you could tell the kernel to *not* use 4Mb page tables by
> passing the 'mem=nopentium' option to the kernel at boot-time, ie via
> GRUB.  I tried this and my problems completely disappeared.

unfortunately mines do not. i got an athlon 1 ghz (not xp) and a
nvidia geforce 2 gts (asus v7700) on an asus a7v board. i built
2.4.18_pre3 with the same options (except that i disabled acpi
support due to some bugs suspected there) as i did with
2.4.16-r3. everything seems to have gone fine, even the problems
i previously had with xfree freezing at "wake-up" from power save
modes disappeared (probably as i disabled acpi). but now xfree
does not start anymore with the 'nvidia' module enabled. as a
quickfix i just switched back to the standard xfree 'nv' module,
but i really hope to get 'nvidia' working again soon (who does
not like to play some games from time to time? ;). btw. i do pass
the 'mem=nopentium' option to the kernel from grub.

any idea how to fix this?

if helpful i can send some log/config file data of my box.

regards

dani

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