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> Hello,
>
>I have a Gigabyte Dual Pentium Mainboard (GA586DX) with 2 P166MMX and
>128MB main memory. I constantly experienced crashes as soon as I put a
>soundcard in the computer. It didn't really matter wich soundcard
>(tried SB16, AWE64, SB 64PCI) or wich kernel (everything from 2.0.35 to
>2.2.pre6 that I'm using now).
Same board, slightly different configuration here;
GA586DX 2 classic pentiums
128MB
AWE32 soundblaster
S3 968 video card.
All the latest kernels appear to work really well as far as I can tell.
[umesh@beluga umesh]$ procinfo
Linux 2.2.0-pre6 (root@beluga) (gcc 2.7.2.1) #6 SMP Mon Jan 11 01:39:54 GMT 1999
[beluga]
Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached
Mem: 126844 123376 3468 42680 9248 41424
Swap: 208832 336 208496
Bootup: Thu Jan 14 17:11:40 1999 Load average: 0.04 0.10 0.05 2/65 11286
user : 3:32:25.96 6.9% page in : 721705 disk 1: 150052r 107069w
nice : 0:15:08.83 0.5% page out: 576381 disk 2: 41911r 42694w
system: 4:28:15.69 8.7% swap in : 68
idle : 3d 22:07:49.76 183.9% swap out: 143
uptime: 2d 3:11:50.10 context : 47056753
irq 0: 18431012 timer irq 8: 0 rtc
irq 1: 82597 keyboard irq 10: 3389 SMC EtherEZ
irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 12: 2046859 PS/2 Mouse
irq 4: 1766628 irq 13: 1 fpu
irq 5: 178 soundblaster irq 19: 3838246 aic7xxx
irq 6: 965
This board though getting a little long in the tooth has been very
reliable for me although I have never been able to get isapnp to
'play' with the synthesizer component of the soundblaster --works in
SB16 mode.
>Even if I didn't load a driver for the soundcard, the computer did
>crash, sometimes I was able to see an error message talking about
>unknown interrupts.
I had similar messages some time back. If I remember correctly, this
was a result of mistakenly enabling APM support for an SMP kernel
(which if I'm not mistaken is a no-no :) ).
Umesh Soni.
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