> > Well, it seems that the problem is indeed hardware.  I had tried setting
> > my bios settings to "fail safe" but that still left the memory at
> > 133MHZ.  Setting it to 100mhz alleviates the problem.  So DRI just
> > aggravates an existing hardware issue.  All things considered.  With the
> > performance hit in kernel with PAE enabled, along with the extra
> > problems that are possible with PAE, and then having to back off to
> > 100MHZ on the memory, I think I'll chunk the extra 512MB and stick to
> > 1GB.  
>
> Since this is likely to be seen again, these troubleshooting tips should
> probably find their way into the FAQ.  Who's maintaining that these days,
> anyway?

No, no, not, yet.

There is heavy VM development coming on.
Andrea Arcangeli and Rik van Riel addressing that.

e.g.

pte-highmem-5
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101120455603655&w=2

And there were some Athlon/Duron related issues in the DRM/GART.
Fixes are under way.

Regards,
        Dieter

-- 
Dieter N�tzel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
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