This sounds like it could have been a real nice system. I built a dual very similar to this about a month ago using Mandrake 8.2, 512MB ram, Tyan S2460 and a Matrox G200.
You probably should have used Athlon MPs instead of XPs. They are made for SMP. Using the XPs is a gamble at best. That is why the MPs cost more. Sorry for the bad news .... KevinO Hoyt wrote: > I believe I am having instability problems with X (the system just hums along > in runlevel 3 without X running). I have a Tyan S4266 MPX mobo (most recent > BIOS version) with two Athlon XP1600+ cpu's and a Matrox G450 dual-head video > card. I have updated the video BIOS to the most recent version and am using > the current Matrox-supplied X11 drivers. My XFree86 is version 4.2.0-10mdk > (what comes with Mandrake 8.2). > > I have an syslog message that tells me: > > kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel > kernel: mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings > kernel: mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs > kernel: mtrr: base(0xea000000) is not aligned on a size(0x1800000) boundary > kernel: mtrr: base(0xea000000) is not aligned on a size(0x1800000) boundary > kernel: mtrr: base(0xea000000) is not aligned on a size(0x1800000) boundary > > The X11 log tells me: > > (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: > [0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) > [1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) > [2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] > [3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] > [4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] > [5] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] > [6] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] > (II) All system resource ranges: > [0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) > [1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) > [2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] > [3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] > [4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] > [5] -1 0xe8903000 - 0xe890307f (0x80) MX[B] > [6] -1 0xe8902000 - 0xe8902fff (0x1000) MX[B] > [7] -1 0xe8901000 - 0xe8901fff (0x1000) MX[B] > [8] -1 0xe8c00000 - 0xe8c00fff (0x1000) MX[B] > [9] -1 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] > [10] -1 0xe8000000 - 0xe87fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) > [11] -1 0xe8800000 - 0xe8803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) > [12] -1 0xea000000 - 0xebffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) > [13] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] > [14] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] > [15] -1 0x00002000 - 0x0000207f (0x80) IX[B] > [16] -1 0x00002080 - 0x000020bf (0x40) IX[B] > [17] -1 0x000020c0 - 0x000020cf (0x10) IX[B] > [18] -1 0x000020d0 - 0x000020d3 (0x4) IX[B] > [19] -1 0x000020d8 - 0x000020df (0x8) IX[B] > [20] -1 0x000020d4 - 0x000020d7 (0x4) IX[B] > [21] -1 0x000020e0 - 0x000020e7 (0x8) IX[B] > [22] -1 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] > [23] -1 0x00001010 - 0x00001013 (0x4) IX[B] > > > And, # cat /proc/mtrr > > reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0x20000000 ( 512MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 > reg02: base=0xeb000000 (3760MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 > reg03: base=0xea800000 (3752MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 > reg04: base=0xea000000 (3744MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 > reg05: base=0xf0000000 (3840MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1 > reg06: base=0xeb800000 (3768MB), size= 8MB: write-combining, count=1 > > > In XF86Config-4, AGP is set to "1". > > So after some mail list archive searching, I have inserted mem=nopentium in > LILO and X is more stable, but it still crashes (although less frequently) > and occasionally locks up the system completely (no ssh in, no vt; no > Atl-Ctrl-Backspace, no Alt-Ctrl-Delete -- Alt- SysRq-B will reboot as will > the hardware reset on the case -- thank goodness for reiserfs. > > Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker (4.2.0-20-mdk) > useable in 8.2? > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Kevin O'Connor "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ... The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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