why don't we write a 'bot that moderates this mailing list, and when
it sees a bug report from someone with overclocked cpus, it simply 
deletes them?  :)

This is nonsense.  You say "don't comment, it works for you" but
does it _really_?

Overclocking causes more system/program/etc failures than any other
single cause I have seen.  And it is a big waste of time trying to
find a bug, only to discover that the cpu is clocked 50% beyond
the Intel spec.


Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Timothy Wood wrote:

> Do you have the same problem when your CPUs are clocked properly?
> 
> Mumford wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to migrate to a 2.3.X kernel to do some USB stuff.  When I
> > fired up a 2.3.13. The computer accepts the username alright, but doesn't
> > give a password prompt. Instead it reprints the login prompt (overwriting
> > the one that was already there).  Syslog says mingetty is giving an
> > 'invalid character' error.  After a slight change to mingetty, I found
> > the invalid character it was getting was \0.
> > 
> > The problem is not just with mingetty, however.  I gave up on trying
> > to log in on the console and tried telnetting in.  It was giving the
> > same symptoms (reprinting the login prompt).  There were no messages
> > in syslog.  I was able to rlogin in (no username/password required),
> > but once at a prompt, I could not do anything; no keystrokes appeared.
> > 
> > I know this sounds like a usermode problem, but it's not happening if
> > I compile out SMP.  I downloaded all the 2.3.X's and tracked down the
> > problem to 2.3.2/2.3.3.  Something changed between those versions that
> > broke me.  I've tried replacing 2.3.13's drivers/char/keyboard.c with
> > 2.3.2's with no luck.  I also tried ALT-sysrq-r (reset the keyboard),
> > and trying a kernel without sysrq (both ideas are from another keyboard/
> > SMP thread), both with no luck.
> > 
> > So does anyone know what's going on?  Does this have anything to do
> > with the glibc 2.1/SMP problem I've heard about?
> > 
> > Details:
> > Board:    Tyan Tiger 1832DL.  Intel PIIX chipset support compiled in.
> > CPU's:    Two 300A celeries o'clocked to 450 (no comments, please.
> >           they work just fine for me :)
> > Keyboard: standard PS/2 style connector.
> > Mouse:    standard PS/2 style connector.
> > Distrib:  mandrake.  redhat 6.0 based.  glibc 2.1
> > packages: everything is up-to-date with what's in the kernel Changes
> >           file.
> > 
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