1. Have you disabled the onboard video in the BIOS?
2. Are you using the onboard sound?
3. Nvidia provides a driver for this chipset in rpm format for red-hat, mandrake and suse. I don't use it on my two nforce chipset boxes here, because I'm not using the sound or AGP, (PCI Video cards) and everything works just fine.
4. Have you tried updating the BIOS? The most recent one from Asus is Ver. 1007 for this board.
apologies in advance if you've tried these already.
Robert Toole Systems Engineer KN Logistics / Calgary [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 717-8463
Curtis Sloan wrote:
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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