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Major Linux/Athlon CPU bug discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 20, 2002 @07:49PM 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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Re:old news again by cymen · 2002-01-20 21:52 · 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.