-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 8:59 pm, Bob Chiodini wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 13:32, xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 7:45 pm, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:31, xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 6:10 pm, Wade Hampton wrote: > > > > > xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > > >Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > > > > > > > > >Greetings, > > > > > > > > > > > >Hardware: > > > > > >ASUS motherboard with 82801EB Intel chipset (865G video, > > > > 82562EZ > > > > > > LAN), > > > > > > > > > >Hyperthread support, Enhanced P-ATA/S-ATA, USB 2.0. > > > > > >1 GB ram > > > > > >Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz > > > > > >3 harddisks, first one is the boot disk using Windows XP Pro > > > > (with > > > > > > dual > > > > > > > > > > boot off of the third disk for Linux using XP boot manager) > > > > UDMA > > > > > > 2, the > > > > > > > > > > other two are UDMA 5, the last disk being for Linux with /, > > > > /boot, > > > > > > /var > > > > > > > > > > and swap partitions). > > > > > >LG DVD/CD-RW combo > > > > > >Adaptec SCSI 2930 PCI card > > > > > >[snip] > > > > > > > > > > > >I managed to upgrade the system using the Internet until > > > > everything > > > > > > was at > > > > > > > > > > "0 updates needed". It was still VERY slow and I had a few > > > > times > > > > > > where > > > > > > > > > > the system froze completely, necessitating a press of the > > > > reset > > > > > > button. > > > > > > > > > This crash sounds like it could be the Fedora SMP kernel issue > > > > that > > > > > > has > > > > > > > > > been discussed on this list and RedHat's bugzilla. You might > > > > want > > > > > > to see: > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 > > > > > > > > > > Also look a the thread about > > > > > Re: System lockup with SMP Kernel. > > > > > > > > > > As for the running slow, that is a different problem. > > > > > -- > > > > > Wade Hampton > > > > > > > > Thanks for the reply... > > > > > > > > I seem to get from the bug reports and message threads that it > > > > could > > > > > > be ACPI > > > > or autofs. If it IS ACPI, maybe this is the reason for my > > > > slowdown > > > > > > also. I > > > > need to check and find out what what to do, but I can't do > > > > anything > > > > > > since I > > > > can't get back into X. Any ideas on what I can do to get my X > > > > server > > > > > > back > > > > up? This is the real problem for me right now... > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > Have you tried turning off ACPI at boot up? Type 'a' at the grub > > > > boot > > > > > screen and enter acpi=off to the kernel command line. > > > > > > Bob... > > > > I'll try that. What can I do about my X seg fault? This is probably > > a > > different issue related to Intel's new driver that doesn't work for > > me. How > > do I recover from having a clobbered X server installation? I think I > > have > > all of the updated X rpms... just do rpm --force -Uvh X*.rpm? > > > > I am also going to try running the 2.6.1 kernel from the rawhide and > > see if it > > helps me. > > The 2.6.1 kernel may help if it is an ACPI problem, might fix the X > issue too. > > If not: > > You could try setting your xserver to SVGA or vga. Try: > > Driver "SVGA" > or > Driver "vga" > > in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (Section Device). I'm not sure what is > provided by Fedora in addition to what got detected during installation. > > Do the virtual consoles work (Alt-Cntl-F1 thru F6)? Yes they do... and this might help me recover enough to run an X server, but that means that I am not running the best video device, and if I go back and continue to get a seg fault... I am tempted to reinstall all of the X all over again if the 2.6.1 kernel doesn't help... bummer > > Bob... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFAIA+srT0x/nxLkjwRA3pMAJ98J3SnOeiboXfSd0WD6h5H2GXmEgCfUHbs QxGHfwQVH39Wb12Jf75/vkw= =aE2D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
