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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 +0000 |
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john <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hi Gentoo. |
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> I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well. |
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> After a week of using I have had no issues and then realised I had not |
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> set man number of cpus in kernel config. |
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> This was set to 6. So as FX8350 is an eight core beast. I decided to |
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> set to 8. |
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> Upon reboot the boot hangs at |
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> waiting for uevents to be processed. |
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> This hangs for 60 seconds and then starts spitting out the following |
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> timeout killing /sbin/modprobe -bv xcpu_vendor 0002 + lots of 4 long |
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> numbers. Sorry, I cannot trap these as they fly by. |
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> in a continous loop. |
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> Reset required. |
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> Booting from old kernel is still ok (6 cores set). |
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> Looking in /proc/cpuinfo there are only 6 cores. |
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> I can boot ok from Windows which shows 8 cores and I have also updated |
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> BIOS to latest version. |
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> Any ideas |
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> Is there any way to detect or test that I using 8 cores? |
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Have tried booting from Arch linux which boots fine and shows 8 cores |
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in /proc/cpuinfo |
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I must be missing a kernel config option somewhere but do not |
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understand why a simple change from 6 to 8 cpus should make a |
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difference. |
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John D Maunder |