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From: Samuel Kvasnica <samuel.kvasnica@tuwien.ac.at>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Subject: Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:04:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F97B5A4.1090203@tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16279.45595.995992.419848@alkaid.it.uu.se>


> > 
> > What I'd like to know is whether this bug is AMD processor or chipset 
> > related.
>
>Chipset and/or BIOS. AMD processors are known to work in other mobos.
>
>You may try disabling just I/O-APIC or ACPI.
>  
>
No, only disabling local apic really helps. On both ASUS and MSI nforce2 
motherboards. I can even enable apic and acpi with disabled local apic 
(anyway with XT-PIC only) and have no troubles. The lockups seem to 
appear when drivers heavily employing DMA are used (as udma5 hdd or 
framegrabber).


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-23 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 18:01 nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ? Samuel Kvasnica
2003-10-21 18:13 ` Matt H.
2003-10-22  8:54   ` Vitez Gabor
2003-10-22 13:27     ` Samuel Kvasnica
     [not found]     ` <3F96847C.4000506@tuwien.ac.at>
     [not found]       ` <20031022133327.GA25283@swszl.szkp.uni-miskolc.hu>
2003-10-23 10:17         ` Samuel Kvasnica
2003-10-23 10:48           ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-23 11:04             ` Samuel Kvasnica [this message]
2003-10-23 12:51           ` James Courtier-Dutton
2003-11-05 23:11 ` Denis
2003-11-06 10:45   ` Samuel Kvasnica
2003-11-07 19:40     ` Eric Sandall
2003-11-08  7:34       ` Josh McKinney

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