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Re: My system too often freezes



May be it is just getting hot ?
Are you using at least the biggest meanest CPU
cooler you
could find ?
I run a Cyrix 166 and 233 and don't have any
problems.

Peter Barbera

Eric Jacoboni wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've a Cyrix P166+ with 96 EDO Ram on an Asus motherboard
> PI55T2P4C and a Matrox Millenium MGA video card. My system runs under
> Debian Hamm.
> 
> I often use Xemacs and Gnus (original deb packages) under X11
> (3.3.2.3-1) and Wmaker (0.19 from slink).
> 
> Too often, the system freeze when under X11 and the _only_ solution is
> to press the reset button :-( No way to have a console.
> 
> I've read docs about set6x86 and i've removed it from rc.boot to be
> sure the problem doesn't come from a bad configuration of it. In both
> cases (with or without set6x86) the problem arises...
> 
> 6x86_reg gives now :
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> 6x86 (Classic/L/MX) Register Dump utility
> 
> 6x86 DIR0: 0x31 2X core/bus clock ratio
>      DIR1: 0x16 6x86 Rev. 2.6
> 
> Wait a moment...
> Calculated BogoMIPS:    130.00
> Kernel BogoMIPS:        106.09
> 
> 6x86 CCR0: 0x2  NC1 set (address region 640Kb-1Mb non-cacheable)
>      CCR1: 0x82 NO_LOCK reset
>      CCR2: 0x80 SUSP_HLT reset (low power suspend mode disabled)
>      CCR3: 0x10
>      CCR4: 0x17 DTE cache enabled, no I/O recovery time
>      CCR5: 0x21 slow LOOP disabled, allocate cache lines on write misses
> 
> 6x86 Address Region Register dump:
>   ARR0: address = 0xA0000 , size = 128 KB
>     RCR = 0x9 : not cached, write gathering
>   ARR1: address = 0xC0000 , size = 256 KB
>     RCR = 0x1 : not cached
>   ARR2: disabled
>   ARR3: address = 0xA8000 , size = 32 KB
>     RCR = 0x9 : not cached, write gathering
>   ARR4: disabled
>   ARR5: disabled
>   ARR6: address = 0x6000000 , size = 32 MB
>     RCR = 0x1 : not cached
>   ARR7: address = 0x0 , size = 128 MB
>     RCR = 0xB : cached, weak write ordering, write gathering
> =-=-=-=-=
> 
> I've read the doc about the Cyrix 'coma' bug and i've try to use
> set6x86 to set the NO_LOCK bit : no change...
> 
> (BTW : the doc speaks about a little source code to detect this coma
> bug but i've found nowhere...)
> 
> I've read the various log files : nothing... Is there a way to have a
> trace of the crash  (a core dump or something like that ?).
> 
> Thanks for any advice...
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Éric Jacoboni     « J'ai épuisé le tout-venant, je vais me risquer dans
>                     le bizarre » (M. Audiard)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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