Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading)

David Mosberger
2000-08-22T22:45:02Z

A hardware problem is certainly a possibility. We really haven't seen
any problems with PCI access once the kernel buffer overflow was
fixed. It was working well even before upgrading to the latest fw.
Do you have another machine you could try?

--david

>>>>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:07:10 -0700, Johannes Erdfelt <jerdfelt@valinux.com> said:

Johannes> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000, Johannes Erdfelt
Johannes> <jerdfelt@valinux.com> wrote:
>> I'll try upgrading him to ver 59 of the workstations firmware to
>> see if it helps.

Johannes> Build 59 still has the same problem. I'm curious if this
Johannes> could be caused by a hardware problem? The machine locked
Johannes> up while reading the image off of the floppy in EFI as
Johannes> well as at the "hit any other key to continue" prompt in
Johannes> the startup.nsh script.

Johannes> The machine seems stable in Linux (compiling the kernel,
Johannes> etc) so I was quite surprised to see those 2 lockups.