[TriLUG] Laptop Hell

[Jeremy Katz]

On Saturday, February 09 2002, Ken Mink said:
>   The good news: I installed RH7.2. It went fine. It was not able to
> automagicly determine the video card, but I was able to manually select
> it. It did pick up the sound card and the USB ports.
> 
>   Then bad news: Once I rebooted, I discovered that Linux was completely
> unstable. Once the system boots, it doesn't last more than a few minutes
> before I get errors like the following;

Try booting with noathlon added to your kernel command line.  You're
probably getting hit with one of the overly exciting Athlons that
doesn't handle the Athlon optimized memcpy() in the kernel.

Cheers,

Jeremy

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