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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:09:21 -0700
From: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Frustrated with Linux, Asus, and nVidia, and AMD
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> 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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