From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:45:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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 said: Johannes> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000, Johannes Erdfelt Johannes> 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.