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On my self-built machine with nvidia-nforce chips on the motherboard, I |
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had random lockups when APIC was compiled in the kernel: |
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Processor type and features ---> |
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[*] Local APIC support on uniprocessors |
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Googling informed me this is a common problem with these chipsets :( |
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Don't know if this is your problem, but no one else suggested looking at |
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your kernel config. It might be worth checking. |
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Jonathan |
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A. Gabriel W. Daleson wrote: |
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> I'm not sure if this is something serious or merely me being |
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> incompetent at configuring X, but whenever I've run X on this Dell Inspiron |
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> XPS with a Radeon 9800 Mobility, the entire system locks up. It doesn't seem |
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> to follow any pattern - sometimes it's within the first five minutes, other |
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> times nearly an hour. |
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> The first time this happened, it destroyed the LCD, so I suspected |
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> refresh rates were set wrong; changing the HorizSync to 75 and VertRefresh |
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> to 60 hasn't helped. |
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> I've tried this with both the radeon driver included with X and |
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> ATI's proprietary driver, as well as both gentoo-sources and |
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> development-sources and X.org 6.7.0 and 6.8.0. |
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> I've had two lockups since then, but the display's still working. |
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> Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help. |
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> Gabe. |
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