[gentoo-user] How to feed the watchdog?
Hi, I recently bought a MSI GM-IM45 [1] mainboard which includes a (hardware) watchdog timer. Now the problem is that I don't know how to prevent it from resetting the system. There seem to be two possible ways but I'm unable to make either one of them work... 1. There is a BIOS setting to enable/disable the watchdog: When I set it to a specific time it resets after the set interval, but when I disable the watchdog the reset still occurs (I don't know the exact interval yet and I'm unsure if it stays the same). So no luck here. 2. Feed the dog: I don't know what kind of watchdog it is so I don't know which driver I should use. I tried a live CD where I modprobed each of the watchdog driver modules (one at a time) and then wanted to prevent it from resetting with a looped echo 1 /dev/watchdog with no success. There is some information on the watchdog timer in the user manual [2] on page 64 f. including some assembler code. But I'm not able to get something useful out of it. Any clue on this would be very appreciated, especially: - Why the BIOS setting won't work as expected - How to find out which watchdog chip it is - If the echo 1 should work when I've found the right driver regards Roman [1] http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=proddescmaincat_no=388prod_no=1526 [2] http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=downloadfiledno=8850type=manual
Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious
Am Freitag 13 April 2007 15:24 schrieb Vikas Kumar: On 12:07 Fri 13 Apr , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone youngest among all the previous mailors, 23 -- 24 this may :) not anymore: 20 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster
Am Donnerstag 12 April 2007 17:23 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:52 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled in the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in there). Please post your .config Ya gotta love the Linux tradition of making big, incompatible changes between minor revs. Actually, the PATA stuff didn't move. New (experimental) drivers were introduced, but the standard is still in the same place and works exactly as before. The SATA drivers were moved, something that should have been handled by oldconfig but wasn't :( For that reason i prefer to do a: make oldconfig 2/tmp/config.log less /tmp/config.log So you see when a config symbol was renamed. pgp5UtDoZKOGj.pgp Description: PGP signature
