Ok Thank's.
But I still have solid hangs with 2.1.1xx series, In aproximately 2 weeks the
system hangs doing nothing strange. Also I can freeze the system with gs
-sDEVICE=ppraw with some_big_archive.ps.gz. I think that the freezes and this
problem are correlated.Moreover I think they are the same problem. The kernel
says nothing about this. Only a time gave a lot of numbers. I have submitted the
complete m essage to the list, but I think that this is a unsolved problem with
some PC because a lot of persons have reported similar freezes. A lot of them
are solved with the mtrr patch but not others. My bios have an option about
passive release and it's on (I have checked it with the vfix program.). It's a
bug in the kernel? I don't know. Maybe you can write to me something about this.
Another thing. One friend of mine has the same computer, the same CPU's,
memory, video card........And the system is working great. The only difference
is that i use debian and he uses RedHat with Kernel 2.0.35 so... In a few days
I'm going to change the motherboard to see if it's some difference. I will
report the changes.
Thak's a lot.
On 28-Oct-98 Richard Gooch wrote:
> Tito Lopez Ciudad writes:
>> Due to the solid hangs in my computer, I have talk with the manufacturers of
>> the motherboard. They send my a new bios and i have installed in my system.
>> As a result I have low bogomips in the second CPU (with the old bios this
>> wasn't a problem). Of course this problem is cuasi solved in 2.1.xxx
>> but when linux starts appear a message like this:
>>
>> mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
>> mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
>>
>> I know this is a buggy bios, but is there any solution?
>
> Yes, the solution is kernel 2.1.1xx with CONFIG_MTRR=y. Everything is
> then fixed. This message is just for information. It is telling you
> that you have a buggy BIOS and the kernel has fixed things up for
> you.
>
>> Solid hangs can be related to this problem? ( When I restart linux
>> with kernel 2.0.35 and with one cpu with 400 bogomips and the other
>> one with 3 bogomips the system freezes in three minutes.)
>
> Yes, the buggy BIOS can indeed cause hangs. This is why 2.1.1xx has
> the BIOS fixup code. So don't use 2.0.x. Note also that SMP is less
> stable in 2.0.x than in 2.1.x, so you really shouldn't be using 2.0.x
> anyway.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
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