Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2003 20:19:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Brian Dushaw <> | Subject | Re: Albatron KM18G PRO/RedHat 9.0 - disk errors and system seizures... |
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On Sun, 4 May 2003, Brad Laue wrote:
> Brian Dushaw wrote: > > I've installed RedHat 9.0 three times now - going on the fourth. Most > > recently I upgraded the kernel with the RedHat update, to similar effect. The > > problem seems to be two fold: system lockups and disk errors. > > The RedHat kernel is massively modified, especially in version 9.0 of > the distribution. Try a vanilla kernel and see if the system continues > to misbehave.
A fourth install...
I've tried the 2.4.21-rc1-acX kernel (after trials and tribulations with RedHat - the compilation kept segmentation faulting). This seems to be somewhat more stable, but still unstable. Sorry to be vague, but if I could be more specific I could probably solve the problem... I still get X-windows/ system seizures, although I can't say I have any disk errors now (except perhaps for those caused by the lockups.) I am going to try an offboard video card to see if that helps (the onboard video apparently uses system ram for its memory - I don't know if this makes a difference to linux or not).
I tried using only one memory card, which did not solve the problem (i.e., twin bank memory is not the problem).
Disk access is about twice as fast (~60 MB/s by hdparm -tT) now with the new kernel, if only the system were stable! I watched Lawrence of Arabia on DVD (3.5 hr movie) with this same system in Win2K without a problem, so the problem would appear to be linux OS specific.
Still trolling for advice, thanks,
B.D.
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