If it's years old, then it's still not fixed yet, because I get lockups during actual disk-checks and boot sequences, and even during the installer executions, way before any sound drivers are initialized. In both mandrake 9 and knoppix 3.3. I really doubt it had anything to do with a sound utility.
I should have qualified it by saying that it is only for if you are using an AMD chip though (are you using an AMD chip?) On April 25, 2004 12:54 am, Katipo wrote: > Alan Ezust wrote: > >You might also want to try adding a mem=nopentium - that seemed to > >get rid of or reduce the lockup rate for me. I read about this on a > >mandrake/nvidia faq back when I was using mandrake... > > This is years old, and applies to a different scenario. > AMD CPUs were being blamed for a lock up situation, but it was finally > nailed down to an inconsistency between the via chipset of the time, and > a sound utility. > Regards, > > David. -- S. Alan Ezust Ottawa, Ontario, Canada http://cartan.cas.suffolk.edu/~sae -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
