Re: Frustrated with Linux, Asus, and nVidia, and AMD

[Marc Perkel]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Marc Perkel <marc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   
> > Ok - I had a bad day today struggling with hardware. Having said that
> > I'm somewhat frustrated with the lack of progress of Linux getting it
> > right with Asus, nVidia, and AMD processors right.
> >
> > I still have to run pci=nommconf to keep the server from locking
> > up. That's with both 939 pin and AM2 motherboards.
> >
> > This bug remains unresolved:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6975
> >
> > So what's up with the no progress?
> >     
>
> The bug report only references ancient kernels (2.6.15, 2.6.17) How do you know there is no
> progress?
>
> -Andi
>   
As of the 2.6.18 released kernel I still had to modify the source code 
to keep the kernel from locking up on boot. I haven't tried it with 
2.6.19rcx yet.

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