Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:57:49 -0800 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) |
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>Bob wrote: >Local APIC locked up with nforce2 and VIA, >impossibly serious with nforce2 and non-amd >offboard ide controller cards. BIOS flash made >problems go away. > >I experienced the lockups when using promise and >siig sis ide hd controller pci cards. I still had problems >with a 3ware card. > >Flashing the bios solved all problems. Now I run >both the via and nforce2 mboards with APIC and >Local APIC on in kernel. I'm running six ide drives, >four on a 3ware pci hd controller card using ide-scsi. > >I got sound working on nforce2, and nvidia ti4200 >agp8 vid card(nvidia drivers crash X but agpgart >with X "nv" instead of "nvidia" works in 2D well), >but not usb. The sound config problem was fixed >by "ln -s sound/dsp2 /dev/dsp". The apps only >look for /dev/dsp. > >-Bob
Do you think that motherboard maker was really at fault or did they genuinely fix a grotesque error. Were any changes in the BIOS-change-list relevant to fixing up this APIC problem in Linux?
Can you provide the following: - which motherboard - which bios revs (the broken one and the fixed one) - which kernel are you running (is it vanilla, from a dist, recompiled) - lspci - cat /proc/interrupts - dmesg - .config from kernel (if not stock from dist)
I really, really hope this problem can be solved without a BIOS upgrade because getting board manufacturers to do anything is very difficult.
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