Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: complete crash with ondemand scheduler
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:04:36
Message-Id: 46B2C4B8.9070807@st.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] complete crash with ondemand scheduler by Raffaele BELARDI
1 It was not a hw problem, I tried to remove the Hauppauge and the crash
2 persisted.
3
4 Updating the motherboard BIOS solved it. According to the Asus
5 changelog, there was a "Patch DMI rebuilding issue." between my original
6 BIOS an the updated one.
7
8 Thanks to those who responded.
9
10 raffaele
11
12 Raffaele Belardi wrote:
13 > When I enable the ondemand scheduler on my Athlon64 3200+ I get
14 > immediate crash: video fills up with blinking colored lines, X cannot be
15 > killed, the box does not ping, I need to hard reset. Other than that the
16 > box is a stable mythtv station.
17 >
18 > The motherboard is an Asus M2NPV-VM. Cool'n'Quiet is enabled in the
19 > BIOS. Vanilla kernel with no binary drivers (actually, initially I was
20 > using the proprietary nvidia graphics driver, which I though was the
21 > culprit, but switching to open source driver did not solve), running
22 > almost no ~amd64.
23 > On my other box, an Athlon64 3000+/Asus K8VSE with same kernel, ondemand
24 > works perfectly.
25 >
26 > The only 'strange' hw on the 3200+ is a DVB tuner, the Hauppauge
27 > HVR1300. Tonight I will try to remove it and see if it is related with
28 > this problem.
29 >
30 > Has anybody had similar problems with ondemand scheduler?
31 > Any hints on how to debug the problem would be greatly appreciated.
32 > Neither syslog nor xorg.log report anything unusual.
33 >
34 > thanks,
35 >
36 > raffaele
37 >
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