Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:45:39 +0100 | From | Samuel Kvasnica <> | Subject | Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ? |
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>>Now, in the system with MSI K7N2 motherboard I have a framegrabber >>(Hauppauge PVR-250) installed, using ivtv driver. >>I'm able to lock-up the system when streaming uncompressed video >>(e.g. cat /dev/yuv0 >/dev/null) and the lockups are also hard, w/o >>debug info. The ivtv driver is using DMA very heavily but seems to >>work on other chipsets. So these lock-up problems might be rather DMA >>then APIC related. Interesting is that I've never had such a lock-up >>when running WinXP on same computer ( :-) seems impossible), even >>under load and with the framegrabber. >> >> > >It can be a too-aggressive chipset configuration triggering chipset big. > >Maybe do lspci -vvvxxx and it's WinXP equivalent (I think such tool >for Win ought to exist somewhere, although I had no need for it yet) >and compare the result. >-- >vda >
It was local APIC ! After recompiling 2.4.22 without local apic everything works smoothly since several weeks. I wonder when there'll be a kernel patch that really solves these nforce2/amd issues. Sam
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