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Re: 20020304: nmap2 display problem

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  • Subject: Re: 20020304: nmap2 display problem
  • Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:32:46 -0700 (MST)
Mike,

Adding mem=nopentium did clean some things up.  Haven't had a problem when 
using garp like I did before.  It did clean things up on nmap when viewing 
satellite... no longer get "stuff" in the area around the satellite.

But, the main problem still is happening.

Changed display sizes... no difference.

I'll be getting another machine towards the end of the week (exact same config, 
current one is on a student's desk).  I'll try another graphics card on it and 
another version of the kernel.

Bryan


> Bryan,
> 
> This sounds like a Athlon and AGP graphics and Linux 2.4 kernel issue that
> Anne Wilson pointed out to me just the other day.  See the following URL's
> provided by Anne that explain the problem with varying detail;
> 
>   http://www.vnunet.com/News/1128504
>   http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-21-001-20-NW-KN
>   http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/175/7626960
>   http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23826.html
> 
> In the end, it looks like rebooting the system with "mem=nopentium" may
> solve the problem.
> 
> mike
> 
> On Mar 5,  2:24pm, Bryan G. White wrote:
> > Subject: Re: 20020304: nmap2 display problem
> > Steve and Mike,
> >
> > Yes, I'm running different graphics cards.
> >
> > The new machine is running a Matrox G550 AGP card.  AMD based machine.
> > ...
>