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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

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?

2.6.18 is the latest released kernel, I don't think calling one release 
back "ancient" is really advancing the solution. The problem seems to 
have been reported in August, and is still not fixed, I do understand 
that he would feel there is no progress.

How long will you wait before putting in the fix Marc Perkel suggested, 
perhaps with a warning logged that it's a band-aid? Many users will not 
be astute enough to find this discussion, the bug report, the fix, 
configure and build a kernel, etc. And not all distributions will 
address it either.

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