Hi Ingo!
I just got my MSI-6120N motherboard back. Unfortunately the problems I
reported about a month ago still remain with this board. I just upgraded
the BIOS and still get those errors.
I'm running 2 PentiumII at 266 MHz each (not overclocked or something),
BIOS settings are quite, say conservative. A freshly compiled 2.2.13-smp
shows this behaviour, I'm just compiling 2.3.22.
Now I tried the noapic bootparameter that seems to help (since I'm able
to write you :-)...
The problems are reproducable by calling xlock -mode pipes (although
that saver is pretty ugly, perhaps it makes intensive use of threads or
something?), the system freezes after a few minutes.
Since I don't see any problems without the APIC options (call me
ignorant, but what's that stuff good for?) the system get's useable, but
I'm feeling a bit unhappy with that situation.
Is it a bogus motherboard or is the "APIC smp something"-stuff bogus?
Please give me a hint on what to do, to make Linux more and more "rock
stable"...
... cul8r,
Frank
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