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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:21:08 -0600
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Greg,

Thanks for reporting this.

-Connie Sieh
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Gregory Harris wrote:

> The kernel 2.6.9-22.0.1 appears to fix this so that you don't have to 
> comment out dri or turn off hyperthreading.  One lesson I've learned 
> though is that hyperthreading on Linux doesn't appear to give you any 
> real performance gains and can possibly be less stable in general.  I'm 
> not sure if this bug appeared on 'real' SMP systems though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> John Franks wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 13:38 -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> > 
> >>Not sure if this is related but here is a bugzilla entry that gives some 
> >>items to change to try to fix this issue.
> >>
> >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170008
> >>
> >>-Connie Sieh
> > 
> > 
> > This is very helpful.  It seems the correct fix is to comment out the 
> > line 
> > 
> > Load "dri"
> > 
> > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  This is better than using a different kernel.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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