On 17:19 Sat 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: > Other options to try are "pci=routeirq", "acpi=off" and "nolapic" (plus > combinations of all of the above).
I was away for a few days Florian! Great ideas! The one that works was acpi=off. Once I added that in, I no longer had crash of network after I started X. The others had no effect. > Since this seems to be an interrupt problem it might help to see the > output of > > cat /proc/interrupts > > before and after the network card fails. before the network card fails CPU0 0: 140497 XT-PIC-XT timer 1: 1399 XT-PIC-XT i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 7: 0 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4 8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc 9: 13673 XT-PIC-XT acpi 10: 5 XT-PIC-XT yenta, VIA8233, VIA82XX-MODEM 11: 156 XT-PIC-XT eth0 12: 4505 XT-PIC-XT i8042 14: 92272 XT-PIC-XT ide0 15: 90 XT-PIC-XT ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 here is cat /proc/interrupts after the failure CPU0 0: 168321 XT-PIC-XT timer 1: 1715 XT-PIC-XT i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 7: 0 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1,uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4 8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc 9: 17249 XT-PIC-XT acpi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0000:01:00.0 10: 5 XT-PIC-XT yenta, VIA8233, VIA82XX-MODEM 11: 200000 XT-PIC-XT eth0 12: 15317 XT-PIC-XT i8042 14: 97894 XT-PIC-XT ide0 15: 90 XT-PIC-XT ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 > > We also need to know what cards we are talking about exactly and which > modules are loaded: > > lspci | egrep -i 'net|ether|vga|display|video' lspci| egrep -i 'net|ether|vga|display|video' 00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) > > lsmod | egrep 'drm|agp|rhine' lsmod | egrep 'drm|agp|rhine' before the network crash via_agp 10304 1 agpgart 32264 1 via_agp via_rhine 24136 0 mii 5696 1 via_rhine lsmod | egrep 'drm|agp|rhine' after the network crash drm 76628 3 via via_agp 10304 1 agpgart 32264 2 drm,via_agp via_rhine 24136 0 mii 5696 1 via_rhine and now when I startx after booting with acpi=off this is the tail of dmesg after I startx. Notice there is no kernel crash of [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] Initialized via 2.11.1 20070202 on minor 0 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: BIOS bug. AGP bridge claims to only support x4 rateFixing up support for x2 & x1 agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode notice no report bad irq crash from the kernel! OK. So now what do I do next? I notice that the laptop is very very hot in running. it is an averatec 3250HX-01. what do i do next, Florian? Thank you very much Florian! ( and thanks Douglas as well. I dont know how to startx with rxvt. Could you explain that? do you mean saying startx rxvt?) Mitchell Laks > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]