At 04:22 AM 1/16/03 -0800, Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
>--On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:15 PM +0100 Wilko Bulte
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:12:30AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, wade wrote:
>>> > Although GENERIC functions perfectly, when I enable SMP in
>>> > GENERIC, the box freezes during big build jobs ( i.e. buildworld.
>>> > ). This box functioned well in SMP mode und 4.7-STABLE. The big
>>> > problem is that freezing does not leave core files or any other
>>> > debugging information.
>>> >
>>> > Hardware:
>>> > ASUS CUV4X-D
>>> > 2 X PIII 600 MHz Coppermine.
>>> > 512 MB 133MHz RAM.
>>>
>>> Hit ctl-alt-esc on console to enter DDB (enable this kernel option
>>> if you haven't already). Type "trace" to find out what is hung. If
>>> this doesn't work, attach a serial console and do a break there and
>>> "trace".
>>
>> Interesting, as I have been trying the last 3 days to reproduce
>> freezes that people reported on 5.0 on (specifically) the ASUS BP6
>> mainboard.
>
>I was one of the people having 'hard-lock' problems.
>
>I have not had a single unexplained lock since I upgraded my BIOS
>to the latest, version RU, and did another makeworld. I can't say
>which fixed the 'hard-locks', the BIOS upgrade, or changes
>in the kernel.
>
>ACPI does not appear to work on this motherboard. I have to
>disable it. The attached asl file gives errors when I try
>using iasl on it.
>
>Anyone have suggestions for the correct fixes to it?
>
>> I ran continuous make -j16 buildworlds to see if I could break it,
>> but no luck (or very good luck, depends on your perspective ;-)
>>
>> --
>>| / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>| /|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
Ok... now I feel like an amature. After flashing the BIOS, I can't crash
the box. Not so far anyway. Thanx for all the help/suggestions guys.
I know now for next time :)
-Wade Klaver.
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