Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-12-03 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Monday 02 December 2002 07:48 pm, Paul Fotheringham scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that Would that be "Multi Processor Specification"? http://www.uruk.org/~erich/mps.html It seems like an APIC issue. I had s

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Fotheringham
Hi there, I have now managed to resolve a problem that I originally emailed to the list about a year ago and thought, for the sake of completeness, I would give the solution. The original email is appended below and was about the failure of 2.4 series kernels to boot properly on an Asus A7M266-

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-22 Thread alberto passariello
I installed MDK 8.1 on a  dual AMD athlon 1900+ asus mainboard with a geforce video board and an  adaptec 29160 64bit  without any problem at all. On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:13, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I haven't the opportunity to meet a dual mobo AMD yet. However I've been so

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-20 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
I haven't the opportunity to meet a dual mobo AMD yet. However I've been so dissapointed with last Asus mobo in general that I wouldn't recommed it. I suggest you a MSI or a Soyo solution (when available, after feedback of course). Tyan has problems too, but it was the first one, so maybe peopl

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-20 Thread Simon A Watts
I would be interested if anybody has a solution to this as well. This configuration (2xAthMP & Asus A7M-D) is exactly what I am considering building in the next week or so. One thing I did read a while ago was a bug with AMD's handling of the AGP; something to do with 4kB/4MB mapping? The "usua

[expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Fotheringham
Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and