Re: enabling IOAPIC on C3 processor?

[jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:48:21 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:11 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:22:36 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:09 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> > > > I have a VIA Epia M10000 board that crashes very badly (and pretty
> > > > often, especially when using DMA). I want to fix that.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Are the crashes associated with any particular workload or device?  My
> > > M6000 works perfectly.
> > >
> > > The one big problem I had with is is the VIA Unichrome XAA driver had a
> > > FIFO related bug that caused it to stall the PCI bus, delaying
> > > interrupts for tens of ms unless "Option NoAccel" was used.
> > >
> > > This bug was fixed over 6 months ago though.
> >
> > It crashes my box within minutes if not seconds when using mythtv
> > (tuner using ivtv driver) while using my network card. If I disable
> > DMA on the disk and don't use my card, it's much more stable (several
> > hours without problem).
> >
> 
> Well, you might have better luck capturing the Oops with kdb.  At the
> very least it might drop you into the debugger instead of locking up the
> machine.

It doesn't.
I patched and recompiled my kernel and made sure the
/proc/sys/kernel/kdb is set to 1.
Machine dies with no kdb started.

I guess I just need for VIA to wake up now, right? No more bullets in my gun?

Jerome