Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-24 Thread shane
any ideas which version? On Thursday 24 January 2002 00:07, you spoke unto me thusly: AMD XP cpu's are not affected from this bug. I heard that the problem is fixed at some stepping version of thunderbird. -- I don't know who said that, but I usually credit Shakespeare. That guy said damn

RE: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-24 Thread Franki
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug On Wednesday 23 January 2002 15:29, you spoke unto me thusly: from what i read, it only affects machines which use AGP. and whose kernals are compiled to pentium or better type cpu's. the bug occurs becoz the athlon / duron processors have

Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-24 Thread Terry Smith
Here's more than you probably want to know (and more than I understand) on this issue - from a linux distribution site (gentoo), AMD and a kernel developer. Bottom line: Seems like a problem. There is a fix. The fix may result in a performance hit (and I have an Athlon XP 1700!). The kernel

Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-23 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: shane wrote: 2.4.18 huh? and here i just did 2.4.17 today... ;-) On Monday 21 January 2002 11:25, you spoke unto me thusly: The bug only effects 2.4 kernels and they will be fixed automatically with 2.4.18 kernels hopefully. It

Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-23 Thread shane
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 15:29, you spoke unto me thusly: from what i read, it only affects machines which use AGP. and whose kernals are compiled to pentium or better type cpu's. the bug occurs becoz the athlon / duron processors have a bug when dealing with extended paging in

Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-23 Thread Kursad Kayaturk
AMD XP cpu's are not affected from this bug. I heard that the problem is fixed at some stepping version of thunderbird. Regards, Kursad - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

RE: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-21 Thread kayaturk
The bug only effects 2.4 kernels and they will be fixed automatically with 2.4.18 kernels hopefully. It has been known for windoze 2k and patched for more than 1 year. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002

Re: [newbie] AMD CPU bug

2002-01-21 Thread shane
2.4.18 huh? and here i just did 2.4.17 today... ;-) On Monday 21 January 2002 11:25, you spoke unto me thusly: The bug only effects 2.4 kernels and they will be fixed automatically with 2.4.18 kernels hopefully. It has been known for windoze 2k and patched for more than 1 year. -- One of