Re: Athlon XP 1800+ segemntation fault

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
22 Jul 2002 17:43:41 +0100


On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 15:49, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:32:59PM +0000, Karol Olechowskii wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Few days ago I've bought new processor Athlon XP 1800+ to my computer
> > (MSI K7D Master with 256 MB PC2100 DDR).Before that I've got Athlon ThunderBird
> > 900 processor and everything had been working well till I change to the new one.
> > Now for every few minutes I've got segmetation fault or immediate system reboot.
> > Could anyone tell me what's goin' on?
>
> mem=nopentium on the command line seems to have a stabilizing effect.

In your case thats the memory handling stuff that the NVidia module
happens to trip. Its actually a kernel related thing not their fault.
There is a horrible work around in 2.4.19-rc2, and people are working on
the right fixes for this.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/