> I AM NOT stating that this is necessarily the Athelon bug exposed by
> gentoo, but it appears that there are enough people complaining about
> unstable systems, becoming stable by running with the mem=nopentium.
> It also appears that a significant number of them are also running
> Nvidia AGP graphics adapters.
Daniel Robbins, William Lee Irwin and myself were on the
phone with people from AMD today.
One possible cause for this problem was already tracked
down a while ago; this problem isn't the fault of any
particular part of the system (CPU, OS, AGP or graphics
driver) but simply a consequence of how these things
work together. Of course we don't know if this particular
bug is the one hitting Linux systems with nvidia.
I won't post my poorly explained version of the story
here as the AMD guys are working on releasing their
well-written version of the story somewhere in the next
few days...
kind regards,
Rik
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