PAN problem solved (doh) nopentium

[Don Rieck]

For anyone who noticed, I had a problem with RedHat 8.0 and the Nvidia drivers hanging in GNOME apps like PAN. I thought that the new kernel fixed the 'nopentium' AMD bug, but when I added that back to the boot options I no longer have crashes at all.

To be specific for other newbies like me:

I added the following to the /root/grub/grub.conf file:

mem=nopentium

so the line looks like:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ mem=nopentium


glxgears shows ~781 fps/sec in a normal sized window when the window has focus, and about 3500 fps when it doesn't (not sure which is the relevant benchmark). At full screen it's only 112 fps :( Is that any good ? Was higher before, but no longer crashes :)

This is on a :

AMD Duron 1.1 ghz
Cheesey Biostar M7VIG mb
256mb ram
at 1152x864 16 bit resolution

e-geForce 2 Nvidia based 32mb card running latest Nvidia drivers compiled as per the REDHAT 8.0 thread here.

Hope this helps someone as much as the advice here helped me !

[bwkaz]

Do you feel up to compiling a copy of 2.4.19 and running it once? I'd be interested to know if the problem got fixed in the stock 2.4.19 kernel.

If not, that's fine too.

[Don Rieck]

I will grab the -19 kernel and retry it but it will be a week or two before I get around to it. I'll post results at that time.