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Major Linux/Athlon CPU bug discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-bug-a-day-keeps-alan-at-play dept.

GeorgeFrancisco writes "I recently installed the nVidia drivers so I could play TuxRacer on my Athlon. Problem is it kept inexplicably hanging Linux. Now I know why. The CPU bug affects Athlon/Duron/Athlon MP AGP users. Fortunately there's a way around it, and: "Alan [Cox] is going to try to add some kind of Athlon/AGP CPU bug detection code to the kernel so that it will be able to auto-downgrade to 4K pages when necessary." Read more on the Gentoo Linux site."

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  1. Re:Is this the same as the Win2k bug? by Afrosheen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey moderators, don't waste your points modding this AC up to +5, that's a total of 6 points!! AC's don't get karma remember? I think a +1 or +2 would've sufficed...

  2. Re:old news again by cymen · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I guess it takes awhile to pile through the submissions. This was posted on pclinuxonline.com recently.

    Wow... That takes the cake. It's bad enough to bitch about deja vu reposts from /. itself, no need to bitch about reposts of stories at other sites. If you can't see the reasons why please bite yourself. I can't wait until it is unhip to be aloof.

  3. Re:Is this the same as the Win2k bug? by Afrosheen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The primary purpose of moderation is not to increase someone's karma but to make good comments more visible and bad comments less visible. The karma is just a side effect to encourage people to write good comments. Many excellent comments are written by ACs and they stay at 0 score too often. I agree, and lately AC's have had alot more to contribute than just links to goatse.cx, but modding higher than 2 or 3 is completely pointless.