Jesse,
What kernel version are you using? I'm not too familiar with the last
few 2.4 releases, but a perusal of the last few 2.6 releases shows at
least some nForce fixes, including ACPI.
Also, a custom kernel compile will make sure you have all the
best/proper drivers for your system. An example (2.6 kernel): Device
Drivers ---> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> AMD and nVidia IDE support
(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX)
I'm not a Linux kernel OOPS debugger expert (IANALKODE? ;-) but my first
instinct is that the kernel doesn't know about your hardware the best it
could/should.
On that note, which nForce board do you have? I'm assuming nForce2, but
it might make a difference RE: kernel support.
HTH,
Curtis
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 14:05, Jesse Kline wrote:
<snip>
>
> I have also noticed lots of errors appearing in my log files. I'll give some
> examples. Here is what my hardware looks like:
>
> Motherboard: Asus A7N266-VM (nforce chipset)
> Processor: AMD Athlon 2400+
> RAM: 768MB
> Graphics: NVidia GeForce 3 TI 500
>
> >From /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
> address 00acb2b7
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: printing eip:
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: 00acb2b7
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.21-99-athlon #1 Wed Sep 24 13:34:32
> UTC 2003
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: CPU: 0
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00acb2b7>] Tainted: P
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: eax: c6bcb16c ebx: 00333537 ecx: 00000001
> edx: 00acb2b7
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: cd3eec84 ebp: c973be94
> esp: c973be70
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: Process kdeinit (pid: 4480, stackpage=c973b000)
> Feb 23 17:43:26 linux kernel: Stack: c011b8bf c6bcb16c 00e1e9ef 00000001
> 00000286 00000001 ca743580 00000000
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: 00000000 00000000 c029379e 00000004
> 00000004 c0243b60 ca743580 c0240ee9
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: ca743580 c43b8540 c0241f92 c43b8540
> 00000004 00000004 c02958b3 c43b8540
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: Call Trace: [__wake_up+47/144]
> [unix_write_space+94/112] [memcpy_toiovec+64/112] [sock_wfree+73/80]
> [__kfree_skb+66/336]
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: Call Trace: [<c011b8bf>] [<c029379e>]
> [<c0243b60>] [<c0240ee9>] [<c0241f92>]
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: [unix_stream_recvmsg+403/944]
> [sock_recvmsg+75/272] [sockfd_lookup+28/144] [sock_read+132/144]
> [sys_read+163/304] [system_call+51/56]
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: [<c02958b3>] [<c023e5eb>] [<c023e34c>]
> [<c023e734>] [<c0149753>] [<c010904b>]
> Feb 23 17:43:27 linux kernel: Code: Bad EIP value.
>
> I keep getting a bunch of errors like this, with different processes listed. I'm
> guessing this is why I am getting such strange behaviour from this machine, but
> I have no idea what it means.
>
> >From /var/log/boot.msg:
>
> <4>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> <4>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> <4>hda: cache flushing failed. disable write back cacheing for journalled file
> systems
> <4>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> <4>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> <4>hda: cache flushing failed. disable write back cacheing for journalled file
> systems
>
> I also get this sort of error for my cdrom devices in other logs sometimes,
> again I don't know what to make of it. In the same file I get errors such as:
> <4> ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.SRS_] (Node
> effe5400), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> But I know I can get rid of these if I disable ACPI.
>
> Anyways, I hope I haven't lost everyone. I really need some help because I don't
> know what to make of all this, and now my brother is going around telling
> everyone that Windows works fine on this machine, so it's really making Linux
> look bad.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Jesse
>
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