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

[Simon Fowler]

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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 08:54:10AM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
> Not in my case, at least for 2.4.20-pre4.
>=20
2.4.19 works for me with nopentium, 2.4.20-pre5 fails with nopentium
and works without it - I can't add anything beyond that.

> At which kernels does the nopentium become obsolete?  Alan Cox mentioned =
some
> confusion about this.  Obviously the latest ones, but does this extend as=
 far
> back as 2.4.19?
>=20
> In order to close in on what changes are triggering this, I found the pat=
ch for
> sched.c for -pre3 and ran that, and find that -pre3  is fine with or with=
out
> nopentium, so that narrows it to what was altered pre3 to pre4.
>=20
> There was nothing obvious in Marcelo's log of changes, so I will trawl th=
rough
> the diffs themselves tonight.
>=20
> At the same time, I noticed that there seems to a fair bit of touchy
> behaviour of AGP out there, so maybe what is proving fatal to me is the s=
ame as
> the cause of flaky for others.

AGP/DRI has been flaky for me in all sorts of ways, but then I've been
using the DRI CVS code which does lots of strange things, so I can't
pin the problems on AGP . . .

Simon

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