Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
On 12/21/2009 06:03 PM, Colin Brace wrote: Mike, The Poulbos driver has also been an amazing source of frustration for me; moreover, you've gotten further than I have. Since acquiring this netbook around two months ago, I have been scouring the net looking for a solution all in vain. I've posted it about in the comment section of Adam Williamson's blog: ... I wonder if your 2 problems aren't related. If you do have bad memory, it could be that the poulbos driver is particularly good at triggering problems. It might explain why you can't get it working when someone else with the same model is working fine. Of course there are about 1000 other plausible explanations too. Woogie -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
Colin Brace wrote:
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
I can't really help with your memory issue, but unless you plan on
coding your own X driver, you will probably want to stick to F11 since
it has a functioning Poulbos driver available from RPM Fusion:
http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/08/10/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-fedora-11-repository-with-working-3d-compiz-support/
It's been working great for me on an Acer A0751h-1401. I'm cannot tell
you how frustrated with Intel I am over the GMA-500.
Mike,
The Poulbos driver has also been an amazing source of frustration for me;
moreover, you've gotten further than I have. Since acquiring this netbook
around two months ago, I have been scouring the net looking for a solution
all in vain. I've posted it about in the comment section of Adam
Williamson's blog:
http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/08/10/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-fedora-11-repository-with-working-3d-compiz-support/#comment-980
As well as here:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20091129132037671&board_id=20&model=Eee+PC+1101HA&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
and here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=233185
and here:
http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=119960
without success. The worst is that an Amazon customer did get F11 working on
this very model:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R11XYCNXTRZQGX
As I detailed in exhaustive detail in all of the above posts, in any of the
distros that support Poulbos -- Ubuntu 9.04, F11, Mandriva 2010 -- the
screen grays out at the point X is loaded. Nothing in the xorg or system
logs give any indication of what is going wrong. The thing boots but nothing
is displayed.
At the moment, I am running this Eee with VESA 800x600, which is obviously
deeply unsatisfactory. I love the size/performance of this laptop, but
basically, from a Linux perspective, it appears to be a lemon; I would have
sold it already on eBay except that I deleted Windows the partition, and I
have no idea how to reinstall it.
Put it back in from you backup. :-(
Okay, you didn't make one, let's get your system working.
In similar situations I have had luck with these techniques. If you feel like
trying a few I expect one or more will help.
- add "vga=ask" or some known good resolution. Need not be your desired
resolution, just what works.
- be sure you take xorg.conf out and let it build one
- use the "video=" boot option to get various options
- use the option to set the X driver ("xdriver=" from memory)
- use another framebuffer
Can't guess which might help, sorry.
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Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:16 -0800, Colin Brace wrote: > Just now I am running memtest from the Live OS (F12) on an USB stick. > It has run now for some 8 hours, and during the 2nd pass I got an > error message: > > Tst: 7 > Pass: 2 > Failing address: 7ba7454 - 123.6MB > Good: 2aa1e9b > Bad: 0aa1e19b > Err-Bits: 2000 > Count: 1 > Chan: > > This netbook came with a factory-installed 2GB SIMM. Am I now > justified in returning it to Acer as defective? Can you repeat the error? If it's a random failure, it mightn't be the RAM. And unless you can prove a consistent RAM problem, it's harder to prove that it should be replaced, and much harder to convince a vendor that they have to. If it fails the memory test, it'll also fail in normal operations. Don't let a vendor claim a memory test isn't important. For my money, what I buy has to have zero errors. I've put up with a computer with crap RAM once before, and I never intend to do that again. It makes everything unreliable. You don't know whether your RAM caused a problem, or the software had a bug, but you can guarantee that you'll get more crashes than you'd otherwise have. I don't accept vendors that make claims that a certain percentage of errors is acceptable, let *them* have the faulty goods if they don't care. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > > I can't really help with your memory issue, but unless you plan on > coding your own X driver, you will probably want to stick to F11 since > it has a functioning Poulbos driver available from RPM Fusion: > > http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/08/10/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-fedora-11-repository-with-working-3d-compiz-support/ > > It's been working great for me on an Acer A0751h-1401. I'm cannot tell > you how frustrated with Intel I am over the GMA-500. Mike, The Poulbos driver has also been an amazing source of frustration for me; moreover, you've gotten further than I have. Since acquiring this netbook around two months ago, I have been scouring the net looking for a solution all in vain. I've posted it about in the comment section of Adam Williamson's blog: http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/08/10/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-fedora-11-repository-with-working-3d-compiz-support/#comment-980 As well as here: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20091129132037671&board_id=20&model=Eee+PC+1101HA&page=1&SLanguage=en-us and here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=233185 and here: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=119960 without success. The worst is that an Amazon customer did get F11 working on this very model: http://www.amazon.com/review/R11XYCNXTRZQGX As I detailed in exhaustive detail in all of the above posts, in any of the distros that support Poulbos -- Ubuntu 9.04, F11, Mandriva 2010 -- the screen grays out at the point X is loaded. Nothing in the xorg or system logs give any indication of what is going wrong. The thing boots but nothing is displayed. At the moment, I am running this Eee with VESA 800x600, which is obviously deeply unsatisfactory. I love the size/performance of this laptop, but basically, from a Linux perspective, it appears to be a lemon; I would have sold it already on eBay except that I deleted Windows the partition, and I have no idea how to reinstall it. At this point I honestly feel like tossing this POS in the nearest canal, and starting over with the one of the Intel 950-based netbooks. -Colin - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/asus-eee-pc-1101HA%3A-memtest-error-tp26878168p26881537.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
Colin Brace wrote:
Hi all,
I installed F12 on an Asus Eee 1101HA. Apart from the Intel GMA 500
("Poulbos") video driver, I have gotten most things working, but I am
troubled by frequent system freezes, sometimes literally within minutes of
booting.
There are no error messages reported in the system log, so I am assuming it
is a hardware problem.
Just now I am running memtest from the Live OS (F12) on an USB stick. It has
run now for some 8 hours, and during the 2nd pass I got an error message:
Tst: 7
Pass: 2
Failing address: 7ba7454 - 123.6MB
Good: 2aa1e9b
Bad: 0aa1e19b
Err-Bits: 2000
Count: 1
Chan:
This netbook came with a factory-installed 2GB SIMM. Am I now justified in
returning it to Acer as defective?
Probably, but I think I would contact the vendor first. I suspect that with the
proof of problem you have they would rather replace just the memory.
After that you decide what your personal ratio of time to money is, particularly
if you were going to add another 2GB anyway. And if you bought it at Staples or
similar where they do simple repairs, they *may* stand behind it and do the
repair as good will.
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Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
On 12/21/2009 02:16 PM, Colin Brace wrote:
Hi all,
I installed F12 on an Asus Eee 1101HA. Apart from the Intel GMA 500
("Poulbos") video driver, I have gotten most things working, but I am
troubled by frequent system freezes, sometimes literally within minutes of
booting.
I can't really help with your memory issue, but unless you plan on
coding your own X driver, you will probably want to stick to F11 since
it has a functioning Poulbos driver available from RPM Fusion:
http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/08/10/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-fedora-11-repository-with-working-3d-compiz-support/
It's been working great for me on an Acer A0751h-1401. I'm cannot tell
you how frustrated with Intel I am over the GMA-500. It used to be that
video was the one thing I never worried about when purchasing a new
Linux system: I'd just look for Intel and I'd be fine. I understand
that Intel has a lot of moving parts internally, so this is no one
person's call, but the difference between being able to count on them
all the time and being able to count on them almost all the time is
immense, and I can't believe they have bungled this so badly so far.
Anyway, if anyone has any concrete information about people (Intel or
otherwise) working on an open driver for this chipset, I'd love know
about it. I'd contribute however I can.
Woogie
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Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error
I kinda have the same problem I have the Asus UX50v and I found that if you
boot it from a different pixel such as 800x600 or what ever then it works.
Either that or it's hanging up on a driver install
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Colin Brace wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I installed F12 on an Asus Eee 1101HA. Apart from the Intel GMA 500
> ("Poulbos") video driver, I have gotten most things working, but I am
> troubled by frequent system freezes, sometimes literally within minutes of
> booting.
>
> There are no error messages reported in the system log, so I am assuming it
> is a hardware problem.
>
> Just now I am running memtest from the Live OS (F12) on an USB stick. It
> has
> run now for some 8 hours, and during the 2nd pass I got an error message:
>
> Tst: 7
> Pass: 2
> Failing address: 7ba7454 - 123.6MB
> Good: 2aa1e9b
> Bad: 0aa1e19b
> Err-Bits: 2000
> Count: 1
> Chan:
>
> This netbook came with a factory-installed 2GB SIMM. Am I now justified in
> returning it to Acer as defective?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Colin
>
>
> -
> Colin Brace
> Amsterdam
> http://lim.nl
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