Hello listers, as of yesterday I started to get random hard lockups. It was strange because just before that I've never had one ... MB worked just fine for now about two months. Until yesterday ... I tried to boot 2.4.3-ac14, 2.4.4, 2.4.4-ac4 ... the same. Btw. I have ACPI enabled, so sometimes I see lots of defunc processes kacpidpc defunct ... and that number keeps growing. Ok, I see that new kernel might misbehave but for example 2.4.3-ac14 used to work as charm and there I see the same ... tons of defunc processes ... until fork: resource temporary unavailable error ... So that's not the kernel (my guess.). Last night I booted up win 98 to play unreal tournament. Then booted back to linux ... and there we go I hit strange pile of the problems and I don't know how to deal with them. Tinkered for a while. Disable acpi or so ... trying to recompile kernels - random lock ups. Sometimes it works fine for longer time sometimes it hangs much faster ... most of time I saw kacpidpc defuncs ... Yet later 5am. in the morning I gave up. ... But then I realized that win 98 did something ... lets try clean up BIOS'es (with jumper). Now it works just fine again as it used to ... Now I don't have a clue as to what was wrong ? Win98 reprograms hardware ? and linux can't handle it in this "win98" state ? Looks like it :( No Ooops. Just plain hard lock up. No cpu not overclocked. Latest BIOS version. My hardware : 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev 11) 00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 07) 00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 07) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5144 swoop@tweakster:~$ cat /proc/ide/via ----------VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration---------------- Driver Version: 3.23 South Bridge: VIA vt82c686b ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???? Revision: ISA 0x40 IDE 0x6 Highest DMA rate: UDMA100 BM-DMA base: 0xd000 PCI clock: 33MHz Master Read Cycle IRDY: 0ws Master Write Cycle IRDY: 0ws BM IDE Status Register Read Retry: yes Max DRDY Pulse Width: No limit swoop@tweakster:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 850.047 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 1697.38 Any ideas ? -- Zilvinas Valinskas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
