Have you had any luck getting this fixed yet? I noticed you are using an Athlon and presumeably an AGP GF4. Perhaps you're being bitten by the AMD/AGP cache bug that was discovered last year. Do a google search for "linux amd agp problem" and you'll get some hits that describe the problem in detail. I think a workaround/fix made it into the kernel around the 2.4.19 - 2.4.20 timeframe so you should upgrade if you have something older. Also, I'm not sure if the fix was general to the x86 arch or specific to only the athlon family. If your using a distros' generic i386 or i686 you might want to try recompiling the kernel for the K7 arch. Other than that the only thing I can think of to do is to start yanking out hardware to try and isolate the problem.
~Scott On February 7, 2003 12:10 am, Jesse Kline wrote: > Hi all, > > Well I'm not having too much luck with my computer lately. I'm sorry > for sending so many questions to the list recently, but I don't know > what to do. Some of you may have been following the "RedHat Crashes" > thread on Tuesday. Suffice it to say my computer has been very unstable > lately and it's been a pain in the ass to try and figure out what is > going wrong. The best clues I got were that .1 it was some sort of > problem in the RedHat kernel 2. it was a problem with the NVIDIA drivers > 3. it was a memory problem. > Yesterday afternoon I got so pissed off that I backed up my data and > installer Mandrake 9. I also ran memtest for 8 passes and it came up > with no errors. Also, after my X server went screwy and crashed my > machine with Mandrake 9.0, I uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers and reverted > to Xfrees nv driver. Since I installed Mandrake it has crashed on me one > more time, and another time it printed kernel errors to the console and > everything went screwy until after a reboot. I was not able to pull any > useful logs from the crash, but there are a number of kernel errors in > /var/log/messages (I will attach a sample at the end of my letter). > > Since I have changed systems and drivers my only guess is that it is > some sort of hardware problem or conflict. However I have no idea how to > start troubleshooting it. I could really use some help on this one. Here > are my system specs: AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 768MB RAM, 120GB HD, Asus > VB170 video card (GeForce 4 MX440-SE chipset), Creative CDROM, LG CDRW, > Soltek SL-75KAV/-X motherboard (VIA Apollo KT133A chipset), SoundBlaster > 16 sound card, Hauppage WinTV GO TV card. Thanks again for everyones > help. > > Here is a sample of the kernel errors I'm getting: > > Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at > virtual address f578fff8 <snip> > Jesse
