From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cerise@armory.com Subject: Re: Dual Core CPU on Abit NI8-Board Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:39:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20060405063941.GA16737@boogeyman> References: <200604050828.02444.f.vondaak@kpage.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200604050828.02444.f.vondaak@kpage.de> Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org 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 > eMail: f.vondaak@kpage.de Homepage: http://www.kpage.de > "It takes a revolution, to make a solution! > Bob Marley" > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html