686-smp freezing

[Matt Patterson]

You wouldnt happen to have a SBLive, or turtle beach sound card? I found 
those to be incompatible with many SMP boards and cause random lockups 
because of irq issues. I have yet to figure out a direct kernel option 
that causes it. All I know is that the hardware I used in windows server 
2003 locked up regularly on the k7 smp kernel, and I tracked it down to 
the combo of my pci secondary video card and sound card combined. That 
was the cause for my gdm lockups on startup, the sound server was 
playing a sound during screen updating. Maybe try disabling your sound 
system and see if lockups still occur.

Matt



chang wrote:

>I ended up going back to warty 4. I found no problems
>at all with the smp kernels.
>My hardware is a dual 933mhz with onboard promise lite
>raid controller & additional cmd649 raid controller,
>ATI 7000(agp), eth1-3com 10/100,eth0-realtek 8169
>100/1000,.
>System already installed with vsftpd & dvdrip, 2x
>regions of raid5.
>
>chang
>
>--- Matt Patterson <matt at v8zman.com> wrote:
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>>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
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>>chang wrote:
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>>>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
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>>the
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>>>system at the gnome or kde gdm. I tried acpi=off
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>>but
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>>>no-go.
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>>>I was ready to kill it  , but , tried a last
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>>mod.While
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>>>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
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>>latest.
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>>>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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