[CentOS] Centos on Motorola PowerQuicc?

2010-06-06 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All
Do you have any experience with hardware emulator for Motorola PowerQuicc on
MS Windows host (dedicated for centos installation)?
Thank you
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[CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Geoff Galitz


Hello,


I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
trenches.  They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly
challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very
technically challenging and ended up being something very simple.  Stories
which are more political would be ok so long as they do not have an agenda
or can be interpreted as a public attack.

I can't promise money but I can promise 15 minutes of fame.  The stories
will be accumulated over the next few months and go into a book about real
world experiences of Systems Administrators and Systems Engineers.  Some of
the material may be used in our training classes, as well.  All stories will
be duly credited and I'll even buy a beer (or other non-alcoholic beverage)
for anyone I ever meet in person.  

Stories may be edited for grammar or clarity.

This book is still in the proposal stage so there is no firm target date,
yet.  If for some reason the book is not published (just like tech projects,
books are sometimes cancelled at the last minute) they will go up on our
website.  


Thanks! 

-Geoff

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Blankenheim NRW, Germany
http://eifel-consulting.biz
http://www.galitz.org/
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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 6.6.2010 13.19, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
> trenches.  They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly
> challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very
> technically challenging and ended up being something very simple.  Stories
> which are more political would be ok so long as they do not have an agenda
> or can be interpreted as a public attack.
>
> I can't promise money but I can promise 15 minutes of fame.  The stories
> will be accumulated over the next few months and go into a book about real
> world experiences of Systems Administrators and Systems Engineers.  Some of
> the material may be used in our training classes, as well.  All stories will
> be duly credited and I'll even buy a beer (or other non-alcoholic beverage)
> for anyone I ever meet in person.
>
> Stories may be edited for grammar or clarity.
>
> This book is still in the proposal stage so there is no firm target date,
> yet.  If for some reason the book is not published (just like tech projects,
> books are sometimes cancelled at the last minute) they will go up on our
> website.

What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can be 
mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub, initrd, 
xen, amavisd etc?

- Jussi

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Geoff Galitz

> 
> What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can be
> mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub, initrd,
> xen, amavisd etc?
> 
> - Jussi
>

The intended audience is anyone in the Systems Administration or Systems
Engineering field at any technical level.  It is assumed basic technologies
such as grub and initrd are already known, but not necessarily well
understood. I may add technical introductions to those technologies if
needed.  

Contributors should not worry too much about this, it is my job as
editor/writer to make sure that needed relevant technical information is
introduced as necessary.

-geoff 

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Geoff Galitz wrote:

> > What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can
> > be mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub,
> > initrd, xen, amavisd etc?
> >
> The intended audience is anyone in the Systems Administration or
> Systems Engineering field at any technical level.  It is assumed
> basic technologies such as grub and initrd are already known, but
> not necessarily well understood. I may add technical introductions
> to those technologies if needed.
>
> Contributors should not worry too much about this, it is my job as
> editor/writer to make sure that needed relevant technical
> information is introduced as necessary.

  i see the potential for amusing anecdotes.  geek humour, as it were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WM977mANl8

rday

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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

Web page:  http://crashcourse.ca
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[CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5.
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel, but
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.

I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail.

All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when booting 194 in 
case that is helpful.
http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/kernel-panic.jpg
http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/just-before-crashing.jpg

Any suggestions on fixing this?

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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, John Thomas
 wrote:
> I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5.
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel, but
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.
>
> I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail.
>
> All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when booting 194 in
> case that is helpful.
> http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/kernel-panic.jpg
> http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/just-before-crashing.jpg
>
> Any suggestions on fixing this?
>

Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus

Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your
machine.  Can you elaborate on that at all?

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day  wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WM977mANl8
>

There's also this one on the the impotence of proofreading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ&feature=related

(No, that was NOT a typo.)

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Digimer
On 10-06-06 06:19 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
> trenches.  They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly
> challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very
> technically challenging and ended up being something very simple.  Stories
> which are more political would be ok so long as they do not have an agenda
> or can be interpreted as a public attack.
>
> I can't promise money but I can promise 15 minutes of fame.  The stories
> will be accumulated over the next few months and go into a book about real
> world experiences of Systems Administrators and Systems Engineers.  Some of
> the material may be used in our training classes, as well.  All stories will
> be duly credited and I'll even buy a beer (or other non-alcoholic beverage)
> for anyone I ever meet in person.
>
> Stories may be edited for grammar or clarity.
>
> This book is still in the proposal stage so there is no firm target date,
> yet.  If for some reason the book is not published (just like tech projects,
> books are sometimes cancelled at the last minute) they will go up on our
> website.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Geoff

Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..."

About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines. 
I'd worked through the night, only catching an hour or two of sleep in 
the office.

The next morning, one of the servers remounted it's file systems 
read-only. Being a small shop, I decided to just take the server down to 
run a quick fsck.ext2. In my sleepiness though, I typed 'mkfs.ext2'.

When people say that "root" is god, well, no one asks god "Are you sure?".

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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
> Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus
It's worse than that.  It's a Dell monitor on a custom built machine by 
someone who does not know what they are doing (me).  Would a more 
focused picture help?

> Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
No worries, just keeping helping ;)

> I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your
> machine.  Can you elaborate on that at all?
Not sure what to do here.  I am at hobbyist skill level.

With your question, I tried using the regular (non-PAE) kernel.  The 
system halted after udev [ok] and no other on-screen information.

Thank anyhow!

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread James Bensley
All nighters are bad news, mistakes are easily made at these times as
we have all learnt the hard way ;)

 *cough* erased the backups and spent the night re-backing up data so
nothing actually got done *cough*

I do remember spending a few days putting together some systems check
for my self and my colleague to use such as daily, weekly and monthly
systems checks for all IT aspects (physical, virtual, power,
redundancy, connectivity etc...) only to have something fail the next
day (so it really paid off!) and then nothing has broken since?...Just
goes to show you never know!

Also recently upgraded my personal Ubuntu server to a RAID 6 from a
RAID 5 (about a week ago) and now it looks like one of the drives is
dying, again, just in time!

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:22:22PM +0100, James Bensley wrote:

> redundancy, connectivity etc...) only to have something fail the next
> day (so it really paid off!) and then nothing has broken since?...Just
> goes to show you never know!
> 
> Also recently upgraded my personal Ubuntu server to a RAID 6 from a
> RAID 5 (about a week ago) and now it looks like one of the drives is
> dying, again, just in time!

Does this go to show the value of preparedness? Or does it illustrate the
power of luck? Or some intersection? I've often been lucky about when and
how stuff breaks down. And I've known people with what looked like real
computer jinxes. On the one hand, you never want to just trust your luck. On
the other, if luck can be involved, could it be that the profession selects
for those who have it?

Whit
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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread Kevin Krieser

On Jun 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, John Thomas wrote:

>> Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus
> It's worse than that.  It's a Dell monitor on a custom built machine by 
> someone who does not know what they are doing (me).  Would a more 
> focused picture help?
> 
>> Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
> No worries, just keeping helping ;)
> 
>> I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your
>> machine.  Can you elaborate on that at all?
> Not sure what to do here.  I am at hobbyist skill level.
> 
> With your question, I tried using the regular (non-PAE) kernel.  The 
> system halted after udev [ok] and no other on-screen information.
> 
> Thank anyhow!
> 

One option is to just continue to run a working kernel, depending on what you 
are doing on the system, and hope that the next kernel is fixed.

I've had the problem with some revs of the kernel, both at work where we use 
the upstream provider and at home with CentOS, and eventually a later version 
worked.  It apparently affected a paying customer who reported it.
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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread James Bensley
I think Whit you have raised some deeper questions maybe about
probability, sod's law, the uncertanty principle, karma, etc
etc...Maybe a venn diagram covering luck and preparedness is in order,
who knows, we/I am digressing

I would like to point out that at home I'm pretty sure I'm jinxed; my
ubuntu server has decided X ins't going to work any more, nor the
sound (may be related) and the raid is dying, all on the same
day?!?!?!

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer  wrote:
>
> Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..."
>
> About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines.
> I'd worked through the night, only catching an hour or two of sleep in
> the office.
>
> The next morning, one of the servers remounted it's file systems
> read-only. Being a small shop, I decided to just take the server down to
> run a quick fsck.ext2. In my sleepiness though, I typed 'mkfs.ext2'.
>
> When people say that "root" is god, well, no one asks god "Are you sure?".
>

Way back in the stone age, I was a sys admin at my university, working
the graveyard (i.e., backup) shift two days a week and an occasional
Sunday.  On Sundays, we did the full backup and restore, but we
switched out the disk packs (I said this was a long time ago) so we
never lost more than a week's worth of data at the time.  Well, almost
never

My last Sunday there, I accidentally reinitialized all the disks after
the backup but before I had switched them.  Then, I realized what I
did, switched them anyway, and reinitialized them again, then did a
full restore.

Everything would have been fine if the file system hadn't crashed that
Friday afternoon

This was on a Xerox Sigma 7 (I'm dating myself).

UNIX horror story: 24 years ago, I was working on a development system
(i.e., nothing critical on it) and my latest build didn't work the way
I expected, so I erased it with an 'rm -rf *' - except that I was in
the root directory at the time, not my build directory.  By the time I
realized what I had done, it was too far gone to recover, so I wound
up reinstalling the whole system.  No harm done (I did things like
that sometimes on purpose, when it was *my* machine involved), but I
don't do 'rm -rf' of anything any more without double-checking where I
am FIRST, even if the default "-v" is set.

(unsigned confession)
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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM, John Thomas
 wrote:
>> I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your
>> machine.  Can you elaborate on that at all?
> Not sure what to do here.  I am at hobbyist skill level.
>
> With your question, I tried using the regular (non-PAE) kernel.  The
> system halted after udev [ok] and no other on-screen information.
>

It sounds like you have a non-standard driver that is not compatible
with the latest kernel.

Can you post more details about the machine, say info from a working
kernel?  Things like configuration, drivers, etc.

mhr
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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
> It sounds like you have a non-standard driver that is not compatible
> with the latest kernel.
Hmm, using nvidia video driver from ELRepo and I don't remember anything 
else.  I tried without the nvidia driver, but same problem.

> Can you post more details about the machine, say info from a working
> kernel?  Things like configuration, drivers, etc.
Hmm, not sure how to do that.  How about this:
centos55[r...@home ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management 
(rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0 
Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb 
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller 
(v2.5) (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI 
Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge 
(rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 
GT] (rev a1)
02:08.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9xxx-series SATA-RAID
02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire 
II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46)
02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

centos55[r...@home ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID :
Bus 003 Device 001: ID :
Bus 001 Device 001: ID :
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 11b0:6888 ATECH FLASH TECHNOLOGY


> mhr
Thanks for your helpl!!

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Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:06:18PM -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer  wrote:
> >
> > Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..."
> >
> > About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines.
> > I'd worked through the night, only catching an hour or two of sleep in
> > the office.
> >
> > The next morning, one of the servers remounted it's file systems
> > read-only. Being a small shop, I decided to just take the server down to
> > run a quick fsck.ext2. In my sleepiness though, I typed 'mkfs.ext2'.
> >
> > When people say that "root" is god, well, no one asks god "Are you sure?".
> >
> 
> Way back in the stone age, I was a sys admin at my university, working
> the graveyard (i.e., backup) shift two days a week and an occasional
> Sunday.  On Sundays, we did the full backup and restore, but we
> switched out the disk packs (I said this was a long time ago) so we
> never lost more than a week's worth of data at the time.  Well, almost
> never
> 
> My last Sunday there, I accidentally reinitialized all the disks after
> the backup but before I had switched them.  Then, I realized what I
> did, switched them anyway, and reinitialized them again, then did a
> full restore.
> 
> Everything would have been fine if the file system hadn't crashed that
> Friday afternoon
> 
> This was on a Xerox Sigma 7 (I'm dating myself).
> 
> UNIX horror story: 24 years ago, I was working on a development system
> (i.e., nothing critical on it) and my latest build didn't work the way
> I expected, so I erased it with an 'rm -rf *' - except that I was in
> the root directory at the time, not my build directory.  By the time I
> realized what I had done, it was too far gone to recover, so I wound
> up reinstalling the whole system.  No harm done (I did things like
> that sometimes on purpose, when it was *my* machine involved), but I
> don't do 'rm -rf' of anything any more without double-checking where I
> am FIRST, even if the default "-v" is set.
> 
> (unsigned confession)

I had quite simmilar experience, but I typed `chown -R user:group' /
(instead of ./). Now I'm also checking it for few times and I learned to
use `.' instead of `./', :)

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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Thomas
 wrote:

> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)

It is possible that your problem is related to this bug:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335
( sound and system problems in CentOS 5.5 with Nvidia controllers )

In any event, it would not hurt to try the workaround in there and see
what happens.

Edit /etc/modprobe.conf to have the following line and reboot:

options snd-hda-intel index=0 enable_msi=0

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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
> Edit /etc/modprobe.conf to have the following line and reboot:
> options snd-hda-intel index=0 enable_msi=0
Tried this, no help, but thanks

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Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Thomas
 wrote:
>> It sounds like you have a non-standard driver that is not compatible
>> with the latest kernel.
> Hmm, using nvidia video driver from ELRepo and I don't remember anything
> else.  I tried without the nvidia driver, but same problem.
>
>> Can you post more details about the machine, say info from a working
>> kernel?  Things like configuration, drivers, etc.
> Hmm, not sure how to do that.  How about this:
> centos55[r...@home ~]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management
> (rev a1)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
> 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0
> Controller (rev a2)
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
> 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller
> (v2.5) (rev a2)
> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI
> Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge
> (rev a2)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> Miscellaneous Control
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800
> GT] (rev a1)
> 02:08.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9xxx-series SATA-RAID
> 02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire
> II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46)
> 02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
>
> centos55[r...@home ~]# lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID :
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID :
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID :
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 11b0:6888 ATECH FLASH TECHNOLOGY
>

I'd run the 64-bit distro on an Opteron, not PAE or 32-bit.  That
shouldn't make a difference, but

Have you checked your /lib/modules directories for non-standard
drivers?  If there are any, you might try disabling them and if that
works, put them back one at a time to see which one kills it.

I haven't done much with ELREPO, but I use the rpmforge nVidia driver
for my video card (a cheapo GeForce 7200gs) and it doesn't give me any
problems at all.

Do you know which motherboard you have?  I doubt that this would be
it, but it doesn't hurt to check.  Sometimes you need to turn on or
off certain switches (mine's an ECS GeForce 6100PM-M2, and I have to
turn off APIC because the motherboard goes haywire with it enabled).
I'd expect this to have shown up in earlier kernels.

You might see if Dell is any help

Anyone else?

mhr
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