On Saturday 30 Mar 2002 8:02 pm, Andreas Beckermann wrote:
> On Saturday 30 March 2002 20:47, Alan Chandler wrote:

> > What version of Linux are you using? =3D there has been a bug in Athl=
on
> > code in certain circumstances that causes this sort of lockup.  A
> > temporary fix is to add "no pentium" as a boot parameter but AFAIK th=
e
> > latest versions of 2.4 (19-pre?) has this problem fixed
>
> 2.4.16
> But this must be a kde bug. Everything works fine as soon as kicker is
> killed.

Its something to do with the memory blocks allocated for the AGP buffer a=
nd a=20
problem with the cache in the Athlon which means every so often the get m=
ixed=20
up.

I had a problem of the whole system freezing such that keyboard/screen/mo=
use=20
appeared dead (although I believe I could still ssh into the machine from=
=20
outside). This was often overnight (I loaded up the system with backups) =
but=20
was random. =20

The workaround fixed the problem when I was on 2.4.17 - I am now running=20
2.4.19-pre2-ac4 and it appears OK without the workaround.

You may of course be experiencing another problem




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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
 
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