Ken Corey wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've got a sad story, and I was hoping that someone might be able to rescue > me from my own stupidity. > > I've got a couple Compaq AP400 Professional Workstations. 500 Mhz, 128MB > ram, 9GB hard drive, MGA G200 graphics card, PS/2 keyboard, and USB mouse. > Not a screamer, but by no means a bad machine. > > I installed Linux kernel 2.4.7, Mandrake 8 on one, and it's running great. > The Anti-aliased text is beautiful. > > I found out that this machine can be made a dual-processor box! So, thinking > two heads were better, I pulled the CPU and memory out of the non-used > machine, and stuck them into the used machine. > > I started the machine with an SMP kernel, and both CPU's are recognized. The > machine works well, and so I recompiled the latest kernel with all the > gubbins to support USB and dual processors. > > I get all excited, reboot with this new kernel and start X (version 4.0.3). > X appears to start just fine. > > I say "appears" because I get one click on anything, and then no further > mouse clicks are recognized. After a minute or two, the keyboard becomes > inoperative, even for a ctrl-alt-delete or a alt-Fx console switch. The > machine is still alive. I can ping it...I can move the mouse, I just can't > click on anything or type anything. ARGH! > > So, yank out the second CPU, and boot off the same kernel. Absolutely *no* > change to the machine, and it works like a champ. Put back in the second > CPU, and exactly the same symptoms. > > So, I'm sitting here with my single-CPU box with 256MB RAM, and a spare > 500Mhz CPU sitting on my desk next to the computer. > > In the scheme of things, just how bad is that anyway, but it's *quite* > frustrating to a geel like me to be so close, and not be able to use the > second CPU. > > Any ideas? Has anyone else run into this before? > > -Ken All cpu's do not support smp. Check the spec number on your cpu and do the the Intel web site to determine if smp is supported. Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587
