<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO --- - [Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit] Severe instability of VIA Technologies Apollo MVP3 chipset and NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 graphics" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56340#c7">Comment # 7</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO --- - [Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit] Severe instability of VIA Technologies Apollo MVP3 chipset and NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 graphics" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56340">bug 56340</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:hancockrwd@gmail.com" title="Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>"> Robert Hancock</a> <pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=56340#c5">comment #5</a>) > Regarding the reason for the freeze, I can think of the following. > > - Is Nouveau is accessing the VGA BIOS of the card during boot, and the VGA > BIOS is a little buggy? > - Does the VGA BIOS's initialization code configuring RIVA TNT2 64 in a > certain way that contributes to the freeze with Apollo MVP3 chipset? I would suspect the latter - these old VIA AGP implementations were notoriously unstable and problematic even in Windows and it's not unlikely that different BIOS versions may configure the card differently (AGP 2X/4X, AGP fast writes on/off, etc.) You can also try updating the motherboard BIOS and try playing with any AGP-related BIOS settings to see if they change the situation.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>