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

[Randy Dunlap]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:09:21 -0700 Marc Perkel wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

Have you posted your needed patches?
If so, please do it again.

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~Randy
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