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john <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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 |
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>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 |
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>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. |
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Have you tried comparing the kernel config between your kernel and the one arch linux uses? |
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Joost |
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