Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-14 Thread Patrick Schueller
Mitchell Laks schrieb: On 11:28 Sun 11 Jan , Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/1/11 Mitchell Laks : I would try to explore the idea that the CPU or motherboard is defective. Perhaps the second core is bad. I had a problem with memory sticks that was similar. One stick worked and not two. I first fou

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-11 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 11:28 Sun 11 Jan , Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/1/11 Mitchell Laks : > > > > I would try to explore the idea that the CPU or motherboard is defective. > > Perhaps the second core is bad. > > > > I had a problem with memory sticks that was similar. One stick worked and > > not two. I first f

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-10 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/1/11 Mitchell Laks : > I would try to explore the idea that the CPU or motherboard is defective. > Perhaps the second core is bad. > > I had a problem with memory sticks that was similar. One stick worked and not > two. I first found that > there was a bad memory stick ( 1 out of 2). then

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 07:46 Sun 11 Jan , Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/1/11 Patrick Schueller : > > > Sorry for the late answer, I didn't see your reply for some reason :-( > > > > I compiled and installed the stable vanilla 2.6.28 kernel from kernel.org, > > as you suggested. Since I am not very accustomed with the

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-10 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/1/11 Patrick Schueller : > Sorry for the late answer, I didn't see your reply for some reason :-( > > I compiled and installed the stable vanilla 2.6.28 kernel from kernel.org, > as you suggested. Since I am not very accustomed with the kernel's compiling > options, I used the old kernel's .c

Re: Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-10 Thread Patrick Schueller
"Adrian Levi" wrote: 2008/12/15 Patrick Schueller : > I have tested this on the following distributions: > Debian Lenny AMD64 (which I am using now) > Debian Lenny 32bit (-686 kernel; with -486 kernel, the problem is gone, but > this only supports 1 kernel as I can see) > Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) 32

Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2008-12-14 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/12/15 Patrick Schueller : > Hi all, > > I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following > problem: > I have tested this on the following distributions: > Debian Lenny AMD64 (which I am using now) > Debian Lenny 32bit (-686 kernel; with -486 kernel, the problem is go

AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2008-12-14 Thread Patrick Schueller
Hi all, I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following problem: Debian Lenny freezes during boot on ASUS X56TR laptop with AMD Turion ZM82 processor. I am currently running the AMD64 installation. The freeze occurs only when both cores are activated. With kernel pa

AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2008-12-14 Thread Patrick Schueller
Hi all, I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following problem: Debian Lenny freezes during boot on ASUS X56TR laptop with AMD Turion ZM82 processor. I am currently running the AMD64 installation. The freeze occurs only when both cores are activated. With kernel pa