Re: Dual Core CPU on Abit NI8-Board

[Frank von Daak <f.vondaak@kpage.de>]

Hi!

Am Wednesday, 5. April 2006 08:39 schrieb cerise@armory.com:
>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?

I've build them myself with smp-support enabled. I've also tried a 
debian-smp-kernel with the same behaviour...




>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
>>
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