Re: PROBLEM: memory corruption with i815 chipset variant

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 21 May 2002 13:54:41 +0100 (BST)


> 8. Graphic card has 16MB of memory: Region 0 is reported to be 128M
> (AFAIK, it could be correct).

Quite probably

> ASUS has used the i815 chipset without the CGC, using a Radeon
> Mobility M6 LY instead. All problems seem to stem from the agpgart
> module: since at least 2.4.9 (after the VM change, IIRC) the kernel
> has shown fundamental instability on this machine.

That means its actually using the same GART code as the 440BX and friends
if I remember rightly (the i815 special stuff is for on board video)

> Without agpgart module, kernel seems stable. A naive (totally naive,
> I admit it) interpretation suggests a problem in setting the AGP aperture.

Does the ram survive memtest86 overnight with no errors logged if you boot
memtest86 and just leave it ?
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