From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: ibook2r2 & strange freeze. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Brice Figureau Cc: "Linuxppc-Dev@Lists. " "Linuxppc. Org" In-Reply-To: <1051292592.2104.9.camel@gaston> References: <1051284468.2467.179.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1051292592.2104.9.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1051293026.10345.13.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 25 Apr 2003 19:50:26 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 19:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > By unstable I mean that the computer completely freeze during boot time, > > around the time rc.sysinit is launched. Unfortunately I'm rather new to > > linux kernel so I don't know how to provide more information on the > > crash (maybe should I configure the kernel with xmon ?). > > In a divide&conquer approach I found that the part of rc.sysinit which > > 'uploads' the console font to the font layer was triggering the crash. > > Can you try 2 things and let me know if one of them helps ? > > - Compile without CPUFREQ support > - Use video=radeon:noaccel on the command line to disable acceleration > on console Also, it would be helpful if you could go backward the kernel versions to point when the problem started. You could try 2.4.20-ben1. If it doesn't have the problem, then -ben5, etc... (do a dichotomy). If -ben1 is affected, then we'll need to do something different (Patches are available on kernel.org) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/