Re: lotsa oops - 2.6.5 (preempt + unable handle virutal address + more?)

[Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor@veritas.com>]

looks like you are using nvidia ?

anupam

"Pods" <pods@dodo.com.au> writes:

>    Hi, sorry for the not very descriptive subject.
>
>    I have a problem with linux 2.6.5, it crashes, a lot. Some times it
>    spews
>    out oops at me, sometimes i dotn know if it oopsed or not because the
>    machine doesnt respond.
>
>    I can reproduce this by several means, including playing a dvd,
>    compiling
>    firefox, mplayer or thunderbird and i can be doing something not quite
>    a
>    hard on the system such as browsing the web or chatting... It'll find
>    some
>    way to piss me off.
>
>    Now, i have supplied several oops, each on containing the full output
>    of
>    dmesg via the kernel logging daemon. I have also supplied my hardware
>    specs
>    (mobo + lspci -vvv) and out put of ver_linux?... All these files can
>    be
>    found @ [1]http://users.quickfox.org/~pods/linux-issues/.
>
>    I didnt want to post them here because each oops IIRC is different.
>    Just to
>    let you know if have tried several way in which to correct this.
>
>    * several different kernels ( 2.4.18-bf24, 2.4.26, 2.6.5 )
>    ** with ide shareirq
>    ** noapic
>    ** + apic
>    ** noacpi
>    ** + acpi
>    ** lots of other differences
>
>    * Recently i had turned to bios and have disabled many things
>    including apic
>    (just incase you where wondering, bios had mps @ 1.4)
>
>    If you would rather me add the very large amoung of oops to this
>    email, tell
>    me and i'll do so. Thanks in advance.
>
>    P.S Im not subscribed to the list, i may consider it depending on the
>    amount
>    of feedback i get and how involved i need to be, but for now i'd
>    rather if
>    people could CC me their response. Thank you
>    again.
>
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> References
>
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