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DiscipleDOC
12-13-02, 11:42 AM
I got an AthlonXP 2600 FSB333 and in certain apps like quake3, it would boot me all the way out of x and then back to the startup screen. Do anyone have it working together nicely?

Here's my Linux Box Specs:

Asus A7V8X Deluxe
AthlonXP 2600+ (333)
1 GB PC 2700 DDR 333 (1x512, 2x256)
PNY Verto Ti4600
SoundBlaster Live!
Latest Drivers (1.0-4191)


Any help is appreciated.
bwkaz
12-13-02, 12:01 PM
Does it do this immediately when you start it up? Are there any messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (immediately after it crashes back to the graphical login screen, hit ctrl-alt-f1, log in there, and copy the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file to somewhere else, because the next time you start up X, it will overwrite the log file that's in /var/log) that point to a problem?
DiscipleDOC
12-13-02, 12:17 PM
I will play for awhile and then it will intermittenly do it. I'll play again tonight and post the log.
bwkaz
12-13-02, 03:06 PM
OK, if it waits a while before happening, that could be the infamous AGP + 4MB paging + Athlon XP speculative read-for-ownership caching problem. Which kernel is this, 2.4.19 or newer? (uname -r will tell you.) If so, then that's actually not the problem, as 2.4.19 and newer have apparently fixed the bug on the kernel side by disabling the adv. spec. caching.

If it's before 2.4.19, then passing mem=nopentium (to disable 4MB paging) to your kernel at boot time might help. But check the kernel version first.
DiscipleDOC
12-16-02, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by bwkaz
OK, if it waits a while before happening, that could be the infamous AGP + 4MB paging + Athlon XP speculative read-for-ownership caching problem. Which kernel is this, 2.4.19 or newer? (uname -r will tell you.) If so, then that's actually not the problem, as 2.4.19 and newer have apparently fixed the bug on the kernel side by disabling the adv. spec. caching.

If it's before 2.4.19, then passing mem=nopentium (to disable 4MB paging) to your kernel at boot time might help. But check the kernel version first.

I'm using Mandrake 9.0.....I thought that was kernel 2.4.19?