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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE - XFree86-4.2.0 problem?
From:       Alan Chandler <alan () chandlerfamily ! org ! uk>
Date:       2002-03-30 21:22:53
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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? = there has been a bug in Athlon
> > code in certain circumstances that causes this sort of lockup.  A
> > temporary fix is to add "no pentium" as a boot parameter but AFAIK the
> > 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 and a 
problem with the cache in the Athlon which means every so often the get mixed 
up.

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

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

You may of course be experiencing another problem




-- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk

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