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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:52:05 -0500
From:      "tony" <tony@tntpro.com>
To:        "Collins Richey" <erichey2@attbi.com>, "bsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Athlon bug ?
Message-ID:  <CMENKLIECOJCDGNFIDPFMEOOCBAA.tony@tntpro.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020119080345.66c66b85.erichey2@attbi.com>

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whay are you having a problem?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Collins Richey
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:04 AM
To: bsd
Subject: Athlon bug ?


Reported on the gentoo linux users list - a problem with NVIDIA drivers
and Athlon.  The bug appears to be generic and Athlon specific.


"Fortunately, I was able to reach Terrence Ripperda from the NVIDIA 
Linux driver team.  He didn't have a solution but did mention that 
there quite a few Athlon CPUs have a particular bug where the Athlon 
will corrupt memory if it is using 4Mb page tables with AGP.  He said 
that you could tell the kernel to *not* use 4Mb page tables by passing 
the 'mem=nopentium' option to the kernel at boot-time, ie via
GRUB. "

Has anyone seen similar behavior on FreeBSD, and is there a similar
boot-time workaround for FreeBSD?

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
WWTLRD? - FreeBSD 4.4 + xfce + sylpheed

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