Try updating your kernel to the latest 2.4 or even 2.6, a lot of fixes went in
to support nforce ide, acpi, and ethernet functions. You could also try
installing nvidia's proprietary nforce drivers from their website to see if
that helps (these are seperate from their video drivers).
~Scott
On February 24, 2004 02:05 pm, Jesse Kline wrote:
> I recently did a major upgrade to my computer replacing the mobo, ram,
> processor, and graphics card. Since then I have had nothing but problems. I
> first tried Mandrake 9.2, but it was giving me so many problems that I
> tried installing Fedora Core 1, but could not even get it to install. I
> then got SuSE 9.0 Pro which is the only disto that installed and booted
> without any problems. However I continued to have what seemed like a bunch
> of random problems. I decided to take out all the PCI cards except the AGP
> graphics card, and I gave the machine to my brother for a week who ran
> Windows on it. He said that he didn't have any problems running Windows on
> the machine, but after reinstalling Linux I'm continuing to have problems.
>
> The most noticable problem is that the machine seems slow. It's not that it
> takes a long time to load applications, but when I'm using a web browser
> and just loading a normal page, my mouse will slow down to a crawl. As if
> it were an older machine performing heavy disk acctivity. I do have dma
> enabled on the drive, and here are the results from a benchmark with
> hdparm:
> linux:/home/jesse # hdparm -t -T /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 1188 MB in 2.00 seconds = 592.81 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 144 MB in 3.01 seconds = 47.84 MB/sec
>
> I'm not sure what these values should be, but this looks reasonable to me.
> I have tried switching the X drivers (tried nv, 2D nvidia driver, and the
> latest 3d nvidia driver), I have also tried using both KDE and Gnome, and I
> have tried using X in failsafe mode, but I always get the same results.
>
> 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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