Andi, Thanks for your response. Answers below. Best regards On Saturday 10 April 2004 21:03, Andi Kleen wrote:
2) Crucially, I added the kernel parameter "iommu=noagp" This just means you have effectively AGP. A more straightforward setting would have been "agp=off" or disabling use of AGP in your X server configuration. I will try "agp=off" and will test again, both in runlevel 3 without the X server, and in runlevel 5.
Most likely you have a buggy BIOS that sets up incorrect MTRRs. How do I check this? Should I just look at /proc/mtrr or there a better way? leopardi@linfinit:/proc> cat mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1
Another great way to increase stability in a system is to not use the binary only Nvidia driver. Unfortunately, XFree86 4.3 does not support the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700. If I try using it I get jittery screens, blanking screens, etc. Should I try building XFree86 4.4 or the SUSE version 4.3.99? suse.de/people/matz/xfree86-fdo/ has binary RPMs for i586 but I can't find SRPMs or x86_64 RPMs.
I have ordered SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. Maybe some of these problems will be fixed there? At least I'll be able to try ditching the binary only Nvidia driver.