"Jeff Schmidt" <j at 4dvfx.com> wrote: > > This isn't actually a bug though. What it is is Intel changed the memory > page size (sorry if I'm wrong on what to call this) from 4k to 4mg, but > noone else did. so when your AGP cards are being accessed, the kernel is > trying to get then to use 4mg sized page files but nonIntel chips can't, so > they lock up. This mostly seems to happen when the cards are being used > heavily (i.e. gaming, 3D animation, etc.) Hopefully a better fix will come > out than the mem=nopentium one. Now if I could only get this damn SGI card > to work.... Er, I've been confused about this. I thought that even 386s could do 4MB page sizes (I think you needed a 386DX for that). Then again, maybe it's a new feature to be doing both page sizes at the same time.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "Were they sent to Hell?" / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ "Worse. Wisconsin." \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020209/49cc6223/attachment.pgp