From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:21:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:21:42 -0400 Received: from toscano.org ([64.50.191.142]:44500 "HELO bubba.toscano.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:21:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:21:31 -0400 From: Pete Toscano To: Francois Romieu Cc: PinkFreud , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Are we going too fast? Message-ID: <20010814002131.A26321@bubba.toscano.org> Mail-Followup-To: Pete Toscano , Francois Romieu , PinkFreud , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010813105554.A8387@se1.cogenit.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010813105554.A8387@se1.cogenit.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Uptime: 12:12am up 2 days, 16:55, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.25 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm running a SMP (2xPIII 600) on a Tyan Tiger mobo (Via Apollo Pro 133a chipset) with a G400 and it runs fine, when I do the following: - disable APIC ("noapic" as a boot parameter). Then again, the system won't boot without APIC disabled. - use the ALSA drivers for my SoundBlaster Live. (I haven't tried the kernel-based drivers for a few version now, so this situation might have changes, but up until I switched to ALSA, I had crashes all the time during medium to high I/O. - use the uhci USB driver when I'm using a USB printer. If I use the usb-uhci driver with my USB printer, the whole system locks. This has been reported a few times on LKML, linux-usb-users, and linux-usb-developers and nobody helped, but a few people wrote back with "me too"s. It was broken in the trasnition from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 and only seems to affect SMP systems. I just gave up on USB printing and went back to my parallel port. Finally, I'm using RedHat 7.1. This system has no stability problems now (after a long series of all kinds of stability problems). Maybe it's a load thing, I don't know, but it now runs stable. pete On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Francois Romieu wrote: > I'm not convinced that gaining stability on a VIA + G400 + X + smp > combo is an easy task anyway.