Alan Cox wrote: > > > The first time, when i rebooted one of my dimms was clearly toast. > > memtest86 reported numerous errors starting from the first bit of it. > > The second time, everything was fine after a power cycle. soft reboot > > didn't help. > > > > I'm wondering if it might have something to do with my having the ati > > framebuffer driver loaded, which would be great, since I don't need it > > and won't include it in my next kernel build. > > No I've seen that same weird 'have to power it off completely' behaviour on > an Athlon with AMD chipset too. In my case it was XFree 4.0.2 bugs crashing > a 3dfx card. > > What happens to require power cycling, and who is scribbling into the memory > or mashing the settings I don't know Hmm. Well, that's OK, I really only have the TV card in there because the FM radio performance of it is a heck of a lot better than the ISA card I had been using. Really shouldn't be watching TV at work anyway :) - Eric
