On 11/22/06 03:28:25AM +0100, sigi wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:23:36PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > No affect in that both CPUs are always detected or just that the box still > > locks up? > > If I remember right, the nosmp-option produced a kernel-panic during > boot-time, and maxcpus=1 froze the keyboard while trying to get my IP > with ifup. > > > Although either way your only real option is to compile a custom > > kernel for UP. > > I tried this yesterday, but dpkg didn't install my custom kernel... I > don't know, what the problem was - I tried the 'official' debian way, > and only disabled smp-support from the debian-kernelimage config-file. > But dpkg could not install it.... >
You did use make-kpkg to build it first, right? > > Sounds like the rt2xxx developers need to get their act > > together and fix their locking problems, things will only get worse as more > > and more dual-core notebooks are released. > > Possibly I should write a new post into their forum, that they think > about this in the future?!? > AFAIK they've known about it for a long time, it's been an issue for as long as I've had my rt2500 card. But it can't hurt to remind them. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]