Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-09 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On 04 Apr 2001 20:42:31 -0400, Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire wrote: Installed 2.4.3 last night and before 24 hours was up it locked up again. next please =/ Do you overclock? My board is stable, but I dont use the UDMA100 stuff (HPT366) and I run the celerons at 433 with 66MHz bus speed. Also

VP6 (was Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue)

2001-04-05 Thread Robert Davies
Installed 2.4.3 last night and before 24 hours was up it locked up again. next please =/ Try one CPU only if you need stability, or buy a new mobo and CPUs... Actually seriously a mag article (Personal Computer World, UK), by the guy who got me interested in the BP6, that he was using the VP6

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:42:31PM -0400, Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire wrote: Installed 2.4.3 last night and before 24 hours was up it locked up again. next please =/ 9:33am up 1 day, 18:04, 8 users, load average: 4.24, 4.06, 4.02 Linux grobbebol 2.4.3 #1 SMP Tue Apr 3 14:39:34 GMT 2001

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-05 Thread Rogier Wolff
Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:42:31PM -0400, Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire wrote: Installed 2.4.3 last night and before 24 hours was up it locked up again. next please =/ 9:33am up 1 day, 18:04, 8 users, load average: 4.24, 4.06, 4.02 Linux grobbebol 2.4.3 #1

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-05 Thread Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire
Here look at my uptime stats over the past month or so. Max is 4 days, but I have ran for almost 3 days at 13.xx load. 1 4 days, 04:30:29 | Linux 2.4.2-ac21Tue Mar 27 20:36:16 2001 2 3 days, 09:26:08 | Linux 2.4.2-ac5 Sun Mar 4 13:27:03 2001 3 3 days,

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-05 Thread Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire
Compile 100 in a row, sure, I'm on it. I'll even let the box sit in X. I've set it to do "make clean dep bzImage" 100 times. starting at 10AM EST Adam On 05 Apr 2001 12:37:08 +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:42:31PM -0400, Unix Admin - Adam

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-05 Thread Robert Redelmeier
Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire wrote: Compile 100 in a row, sure, I'm on it. I'll even let the box sit in X. I've set it to do "make clean dep bzImage" 100 times. starting at 10AM You might also try some of my CPU testing utilites to validate your hardware. I would suggest 2*`burnP6` for 1

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-05 Thread Adam Gregoire
Well it's been 3h50mins running 4 burnMMX which are all still running with no errors. But I can almost say that sometime in the next minute to 4 days that I will be in X and will click the mouse button and it will lock. I'll keep you posted. PS. I have tried both a PS/2 and a USB mouse. Adam

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-04 Thread Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire
Installed 2.4.3 last night and before 24 hours was up it locked up again. next please =/ Adam Gregoire On 04 Apr 2001 00:35:40 +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: But now get this It has locked hard no kbd/mouse/network but my ATI All-In-Wonder was playing TV and sound after this lock.

[LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire
Well my box is still locking up only in X and only while using mouse. I'm not sharing any interrupts I have fans all over my box. Tried with PIO1,2,3,4 UDMA no combination is any different. Tried many kernels 2.2.x 2.4.1 2.4.2 2.4.2-ac5 2.4.2-ac21, tried the noapic option. Four different video

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Gnea
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:56:58AM -0400, Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire wrote: Well my box is still locking up only in X and only while using mouse. I'm not sharing any interrupts I have fans all over my box. Tried with PIO1,2,3,4 UDMA no combination is any different. Tried many kernels 2.2.x

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Robert Davies
Well my box is still locking up only in X and only while using mouse. I'm not sharing any interrupts I have fans all over my box. Tried with PIO1,2,3,4 UDMA no combination is any different. Tried many kernels 2.2.x 2.4.1 2.4.2 2.4.2-ac5 2.4.2-ac21, tried the noapic option. Four different

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Francisco Rojas
I used to have the same problem as you. Luckily, my computer has not locked up in a while. I still get APIC errors reported, but it does not lockup my system. My setup, Bios QQ kernel 2.4.1, (I'll check my version of X probably 4), 450 Mb ram-64+128+256 30Gb on hdt366 2Gb --ide1 10Gb--ide2

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire
On 03 Apr 2001 09:15:52 -0400, Gnea wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:56:58AM -0400, Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire wrote: Well my box is still locking up only in X and only while using mouse. I'm not sharing any interrupts I have fans all over my box. Tried with PIO1,2,3,4 UDMA no combination

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Unix Admin - Adam Gregoire
I have already tried all of your suggested voodoo to no avail Im using ati_xv/dri-cvs. On 03 Apr 2001 07:43:22 -0700, Francisco Rojas wrote: I used to have the same problem as you. Luckily, my computer has not locked up in a while. I still get APIC errors reported, but it does not lockup my

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups continue

2001-04-03 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
But now get this It has locked hard no kbd/mouse/network but my ATI All-In-Wonder was playing TV and sound after this lock. Anyone out there have the slighest clue? I am now totally baffled. Ive tried 2 QQ bios 2 ru including one without the HPT support. Please try 2.4.3 -

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] lockups

2000-12-21 Thread Robert Redelmeier
Ahmon Dancy wrote: On the topic of various ways to try to fix the lockup problem.. perhaps we should try a different approach. Does anyone know the exact nature of the lockup? i.e.: Is the kernel getting stuck in a loop somewhere? Is the kernel waiting for something to happen that will

[LINUX-ABIT] lockups

2000-12-20 Thread Ahmon Dancy
On the topic of various ways to try to fix the lockup problem.. perhaps we should try a different approach. Does anyone know the exact nature of the lockup? i.e.: Is the kernel getting stuck in a loop somewhere? Is the kernel waiting for something to happen that will never happen? Is it

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] lockups

2000-12-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Ahmon Dancy wrote: Unfortunately, the best person to answer this is probably Andre.. but he doesn't experience the problem. Set your latancy to 0x20 or 32, because the PCI Arbitration Bit is destroyed in 440BX/LX/MX system and any other Intel box that has a PIIX4 that is

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] lockups

2000-12-20 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On the topic of various ways to try to fix the lockup problem.. perhaps we should try a different approach. Does anyone know the exact nature of the lockup? i.e.: I would say that if the lockup would be in spinlock than the NMI oopser would catch this lock. Is the kernel getting

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] lockups

2000-12-20 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Ahmon Dancy wrote: Unfortunately, the best person to answer this is probably Andre.. but he doesn't experience the problem. Set your latancy to 0x20 or 32, because the PCI Arbitration Bit is destroyed in 440BX/LX/MX system and any other Intel box that has a PIIX4

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-29 Thread Lars Munch
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:30:24AM +0200, Lars Munch wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:52:45PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Follow up, If this is not an overclocking issue, they speak up. No, I'm not overclocking (don't want to rock the boat). After changing to UDMA 2 (as Rob

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-27 Thread Bart N. Locanthi
what if you're overclocking the cpus but underclocking the pci bus? If you are overclocking, go away with the problem, because it is not mine. As the driver tightens the gaps of wasted cycles the window of overclocking will collapse. -- =- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-27 Thread Lars Munch
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:41:24PM -0400, Rahul Karnik wrote: Did you post this to linux-kernel? Nope, I'm not on that list. (but I do read kernel traffic :-) And have you tried the latest kernels? Some IDE fixes there. Yes, this was with kernel 2.4.0-test9pre4. Thanks, Lars -- =-

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-27 Thread Lars Munch
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:52:45PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Follow up, If this is not an overclocking issue, they speak up. No, I'm not overclocking (don't want to rock the boat). After changing to UDMA 2 (as Rob suggested) my system has been stable, but then again I have not been

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Rahul Karnik wrote: Did you post this to linux-kernel? And have you tried the latest kernels? Some IDE fixes there. I am running a 13.6GB Western Digital drive on the HPT 366 without any problems but its my Windows 2000 disk that I access in Linux but dont boot

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
Follow up, If this is not an overclocking issue, they speak up. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy -- =- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -= =-body of "unsubscribe linux-abit". -=

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups using the hpt366 on BP6

2000-09-25 Thread Robert Davies
Before I disable UDMA/66 and moves the HD to the UDMA/33 controller, I have to ask if there is anything I can do to fix this, e.g. use the noapic option, disable Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support, use a different mode in the htp366 bios etc. Try going into the HPT Bios and changing the

[LINUX-ABIT] lockups vs. shared IRQs

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Schernau
I had the box get twitchy on me with the NIC and the HPT controller sharing an interrupt. Supposedly PCI supports it, but there's a lot of card-bus-driver interaction here, that might explain some of the crashing. I've got everything on its own interrupt now, and its stable. (Well, that and

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups

2000-02-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 05:00:35PM -0500, Matt Yurman wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:02:49 +0100 (MET), you wrote: On BP6, most of the lockups seem to be that the whole system freezes, so either there is a hardware lockup, or somehow Linux happens to get stuck in a spinlock-deadlock, but

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Sorisio
I've also seen this - sometimes the mouse will die and I have to restart X to restore it. But as for weird keyboard errors, I only see that while playing Quake 3, and then only occasionally. cs On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: I have had occasional, weird keyboard behavior with

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups

2000-02-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
Matt Yurman wrote: has anyone else noticed that the lockups under high cpu use appear to be because one cpu drops offline? i would get the same sort of lockups occasionally, but since i run seti it is more frequent. This is what I'd expect from a "spinlock programming error". I'm a device

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-07 Thread Dwayne Jacques Fontenot
I'm running stable (have been for months, longest uptime about 100 days rebooted to upgrade kernel). my specs: RedHat 6.1, kernels between 2.2.13preX and 2.2.14pre18 XFree86 3.3.5 SVGA server in use at all times - heavily. BP6 rev 1 (metal handles) 2xC366@[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Alpha coolers

RE: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-07 Thread DeWitt, Michael
I am using lm_sensors and haven't found any difference in reliability. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 7:26 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:emddjf@office8 Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-07 Thread Dwayne Jacques Fontenot
PROTECTED]] Sent:Friday, January 07, 2000 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emddjf@office8 Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do... I also suspected lm_sensors as an instability factor. I stopped using them and my lockups went away. No guarantee that was it though

RE: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-07 Thread DeWitt, Michael
I am running 2.2.12 and 2.2.13 Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 7:37 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:emddjf@office8 Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do... That's good to know. Which version

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-07 Thread Ville Herva
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:26:04PM -0600, you [Dwayne Jacques Fontenot] claimed: Once I left my machine up for about 24 hours compiling the kernel in a loop using both processors (make -j 2). It didn't lock up. I did that too (make -j3) - no lockup. But once I do 2x100% floating point

[LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-06 Thread Lunar
I think every one who had lockups need to send a complete report somewhere (buy date for the motherboard, speed and voltage of CPUs, average temp, all devices, kernel, modules, ...) to track where it goes wrong. What do you think of that ? And who wants to do it ? Lunar PS : I bought my Abit

RE: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-06 Thread DeWitt, Michael
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do... As a sanity check, and this is probably the wrong forum to ask, whos is not having problems? What are your uptime records? -- Michael Rasmussen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity email to page

Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
them won't be very fruitful. -Original Message- From: Michael Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do... As a sanity check, and this is probably the wrong forum to

RE: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockups and what to do...

2000-01-06 Thread DeWitt, Michael
eems clear that from a uniprocessor perspective, the BP6 seems as reliable as the BE6 board. Mike -Original Message- From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:40 PM To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Lockup