686-smp freezing

[Matt Patterson]

Give us some details about your hardware. Some systems dont like kernel 
insert notification, some dont like pci video cards, some have crappy 
acpi, apic and local apic implementations. Mine didnt like the onboard 
scsi controller.

Matt



chang wrote:

>I had no trouble with the Warty distro & 686-smp
>kernels.
>When I switched to Kubuntu & Ubuntu 5.04 the 386
>default was ok. But the 686-smp kernels just froze the
>system at the gnome or kde gdm. I tried acpi=off but
>no-go.
>
>I was ready to kill it  , but , tried a last mod.While
>in 386 image.
>I upgraded the linux-image to 686-smp to 2.6.11-1.
>Then added to the boot image config;
>acpi=off nolapic noapic.
>
>Upgraded all the upgradeable kde stuff to the latest.
>
>Removed EVMS from the system , will do my software
>raid with just mdadm. I would've removed LVM but
>waited to see if the system booted up ok. 
>
>System worked, I was able to login, but froze after
>installing gkrellm and running it.
>Anybody have any suggestions?
>
>chang
> 
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