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From: Fort David <epopo@onetelnet.fr>
To: Benjamin.Monate@lri.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:26:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A196CD9.AB946AD3@onetelnet.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14868.3329.775330.576681@sun-demons> <3A15CE34.EF2FE3CC@uow.edu.au> <14873.17358.536711.2282@sun-demons>

"Benjamin Monate

> In his message of Sat 18 November, Andrew Morton writes :
> > Try booting with the `noapic' option.  Looks like your APIC
> > is getting itself unprogrammed.  Check that you're not
> > overclocked and not over temperature.
>
> Booting with noapic did not improve anything.
> The processor is not supposed to be overclocked. How can I be sure of
> that ?
>
> Further investigations showed that the problem will occur only when
> Xfree 4.0.1 is running with an smp kenel . Xfree 3.3.6 is ok. Could this
> be a bug in X ?  I thought that the kernel should prevent such a bug
> from locking the computer.
>
> Thank you again for your help.
> --
>

What 's your video card ? Not something running with closed source drivers ?
(namely G-force)
The kernel cannot prevent drivers from locking PCI/AGP bus.

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-20 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-16 16:36 Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older) Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate
     [not found] ` <3A15CE34.EF2FE3CC@uow.edu.au>
2000-11-20 15:31   ` Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate
2000-11-20 18:26     ` Fort David [this message]
2000-11-20 18:11       ` Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate
2000-11-20 18:13         ` Alan Cox
2000-11-21 14:31           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-21 16:27             ` Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate
2000-11-21 17:35               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-22  9:45                 ` Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate
     [not found]                   ` <Pine.GSO.3.96.1001123183522.6381H-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
2000-11-23 19:39                     ` Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate
     [not found]                       ` <Pine.GSO.3.96.1001127154910.13774O-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
2000-11-27 16:58                         ` Benjamin Monate <Benjamin Monate

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