From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: Jeff Mock <jeff-ml@mock.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.21 ICH5 SATA related hang during boot
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:24:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030630002442.GD276@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030629165324.03da7cf0@mail.mock.com>
Quoth Jeff Mock:
> At 07:22 PM 6/29/2003 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >Quoth Jeff Mock:
> >>
> >> I'm running a 2.4.21 kernel on a redhat 9.0 system.
> >>
> >> I'm having a problem when using serial ATA drives on an Intel 875P/ICH5
> >> motherboard where the kernel will hang at approximately the same place
> >> in the boot process about 25% of the time.
> >
> >[tale of woe elided]
> >
> >[lots of snippage]
> >
> >> 1: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Sat
> >> Apr 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003
> >
> >You won't get a lot of help here until you lose this module.
> >
> >
> >> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> >> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 1919M
> >> agpgart: Unsupported Intel chipset (device id: 2578), you might want to
> >try
> >> agp_try_unsupported=1.
> >> agpgart: no supported devices found.
> >> 1: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
> >
> >Hmm.
>
> Guilty. The sad thing is that's just the tip of my politically
> incorrect iceberg.
It's not about politically incorrect. I could care less.
> The nvidia driver (and the attempt at agpgart) is loaded when X
> starts, long after the potential SATA related crash. I changed my
> default init level and rebooted a few times to verify the crash, so
> I'm pretty sure that neither agpgart or the proprietary graphics driver
> are involved in the problem.
Except that without the driver source code, no one can be certain
that the NVIDIA modules isn't scribbling inappropriately in memory
and your particular setup just tickles an otherwise latent bug.
What's lost by *not* loading the driver?
Kurt
--
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-29 22:37 PROBLEM: 2.4.21 ICH5 SATA related hang during boot Jeff Mock
2003-06-29 23:22 ` Kurt Wall
2003-06-30 0:00 ` Jeff Mock
2003-06-30 0:24 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2003-06-30 17:28 ` Jeff Mock
2003-06-30 18:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-01 18:51 ` Jeff Mock
2003-07-01 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-02 7:34 ` Jeff Mock
2003-07-02 9:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-30 17:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-01 1:30 ` Jeff Mock
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