Brent Hasty wrote:
I have traced my system Instabilitys to the SMP Kernel and the USB-OHCI module, use of any usb device from a microsoft explorer mouse, hp 6350 scanner, to hp g85 office jet; results in random reboots, hard lockups, and other undesirable effects.Did you try to rebuild the kernel with gcc2.96 and see if you still have problems?
(you'll have to tweak kernel configuration, since there are files that will compile only with gcc3.2, at least in mdk source rpm).
After variuos trials and errors this is what I did:
- installed the kernel source rpm
- tweaked the spec file to use gcc2.96 and only build the kernels I was interested in, I also changed realrelease to keep the old kernel around
- edited the line after %if %{build_gcc296} to read
%define KCC /usr/bin/gcc-2.96
- in the sources directory unpacked linux-2.4.19-q16.tar.bz2, in order to modify kernel configuration (which is in 2.4.19-q16/configs). I had to remove the ambassador module to build the kernel:
$ diff --unified i386~ i386
--- i386~ 2002-11-20 13:23:05.000000000 +0100
+++ i386 2002-11-20 13:23:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@
# CONFIG_ATM_IDT77252_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_ATM_IDT77252_RCV_ALL is not set
CONFIG_ATM_IDT77252_USE_SUNI=y
-CONFIG_ATM_AMBASSADOR=m
+# CONFIG_ATM_AMBASSADOR is not set
# CONFIG_ATM_AMBASSADOR_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ATM_HORIZON=m
# CONFIG_ATM_HORIZON_DEBUG is not set
but I didn't build an smp kernel, so YMMV
- repacked the directory to linux-2.4.19-q16.tar.bz2
- rpm -bb
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Luca Olivetti
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