On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:54 -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > When I first seen this subject line I thought you were > calling the list a bunch of Jerks! My bad!
Just a few of them :-) > Have you tried a livecd, No, but I will. That's a good idea. > it almost sounds like a hardware > problem? Yes, it does. But a friend of mine has another one with the identical problem. That makes it begin to sound like a design problem... > Did it run like it should under it's former OS? There was none -- it came in the door, and Debian went on it. I tried it with DeMuDi (2.4, i386 kernel); same problem. > I would really look at the logs, as suggested make sure that > smp is working. I just grepped -i messages* for smp. It says it's configuring SMP from ACPI. I didn't see anything about SMP actually doing anything. What should I look for? > Also it might be a good idea to make sure > your drives are working at the proper DMA settings. My normal config uses a SCSI system drive and a pair of SATAs, all running from mobo controller chips. I've tried disabling all of them in the BIOS and installing and running with an IDE. Same thing. I don't know how to check for DMA on the SCSI drive, but I can't imagine anybody running SCSI without DMA. > Are you > using the proper arch? If the proper arch is AMD64, I am. > Just because you buy Sun, and it uses > AMD Opteron's doesn't mean it's a spark. I wasn't really expecting that, but sometimes engineers used to doing good work have a hard time turning out a turkey. OTOH, there was a rule of thumb, back in the 70's: "Never buy anything from CDC that costs less than $50,000" :-) It was way on sale at the beginning of the summer, and it sorta kinda looks like Sun is heading in ou direction, so I thought I'd look into it. It's a nice enough machine, with some cute features, but the jerks (computer, not human) are making me crazy... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
