Re: Weird lockups
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Matthew R. Pavlovich wrote:
> *My next suspect was IDE interface. A few times it hard locked while
> accessing the IDE devices (1 hdd, 1 cd). The onboard controller is the
> CMD646 (kernel driver avail). I tried kernels w/ and w/o CMD646 compiled
> in. I then disconnected all the IDE devices, and did not track it down.
The CMD646 is in line with CMD's history of shipping botched
controllers. Do not enable DMA or higher speed transfers if you wish to
keep your data intact.
> *I am now left w/ the video card. It is a Matrox PCI G200. The system
> has often locked up while in X, but not always. The system will not boot
> if fbdev support is compiled in monolithically.
I've not yet managed to put my Matrox Millennium II card into any
of the higher bpp modes. The screen gets blanked but then stays there.
The machine still runs, but I cant go to another VC as it will not switch
back to text mode or something. SysRq works though...
Greetings,
Michael.
"I'm not just a server, but I'm also a client." Debian GNU/Linux
Michael Stroucken stroucki@debian.org Is your penguin 64 bit?
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