Re: Dual Core CPU on Abit NI8-Board

[cerise@armory.com]

Hi Frank:

This sounds suspiciously to me like those kernels don't have SMP support
built in.  Are those kernels you built yourself or obtained from your distro?

-Phil/CERisE

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:28:02AM +0200, Frank von Daak wrote:
> Hello to all!
> 
> I hope that this is the right place for me to report my problem - if not, 
> please tell me!
> 
> Some days ago I've purchased a new motherboard, cpu and graphics-adapters.
> The board is called "Abit NI8 SLI" which has a nForce4-Chipset and a socket 
> 775.
> 
> http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=280
> 
> The CPU is a Pentium-D 2,8 GHz. And the graphics-adapters are two 
> GeForce7800GTX-Cards...
> 
> My problem is, that a "cat /proc/cpuinfo" shows me just one cpu with one core. 
> I've tested this with kernels 2.6.16.1 and 2.6.17-rc1 (x86 and x86_64)
> 
> If I add the following line in my lilo.conf to the kernel, I can see both 
> cpu's:
> append="pci=noacpi pci=routeirq noapic acpi=off"
> 
> After this my cpuinfo looks like this:
> http://www.kpage.de/cpuinfo.txt
> 
> and dmesg say's this:
> http://www.kpage.de/dmesg.txt
> 
> But if I do so, the machine is running very unstable and is hanging after a 
> while. The crashes will happen espacialy if I run OpenGL-Applications like 
> "glxgears".
> 
> Can someone of you tell me, what I can do to fix this problem?
> If you need further information, please tell me!
> 
> Thank you very much and greetings!
> Frank
> 
> -- 
> Name:	Frank von Daak
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