Re: Linux v2.5.62

[Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com>]

Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com> writes:

> Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas@gemtek.lt> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:53:43AM -0500, David Ford wrote:
> > > 2.5.60+ is rather unstable for me on an Athlon CPU w/ gcc 3.2.2.  If I'm 
> > > careful and do very little in X, it seems to stay up for a few days.  If 
> > > I do any sort of fast graphics or sound, etc, it'll die very quickly.  
> > > 'tis an instant death with no OOPS, nothing at all on screen, nothing on 
> > > serial console.
> > > 
> > > Just an FYI, I'm trying to narrow it down.
> > 
> > it might triple fault ? Who knows. One thing I am sure of, if I don't
> > load agpgart + intel-agp, laptop in questions, works flawlessly.
> > Otherwise first time I log of KDE trying to login as different user I
> > get instant reboot.
> > 
> 
> I'm seeing the same on my Evo800c, I think it's very much
> ACPI-related, as logging out of gnome and back in worked before i got
> a newer ACPI-patch on 2.4. Currently on 2.4.20 with ACPI patch from
> early January.
> 
> Planning on testing out the latest ACPI-patch dates February 18th
> along with 2.4.21-pre4 now; and tinker a bit with the DSDT to make it
> usefull; I'll let you know how it works out.
>

Made a new kernel, 2.4.21-pre4 with ACPI form 0218 patched it, and
recompiled. Running with the builtin its fine, and my own supplied DSDT the
machine will instantly reboot when hitting the logout-button in Gnome
2.2.

How do I get a way of telling exactly what went pear shaped whe the
machine just reboots like that?

mvh,
A
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