ok, first off, i'd like to say thanx for all the help and suggestions
that everybody's given me. it feels good to have a community ready and
willing to help :-D
now, to the bad news -.-
ok, i recompiled my kernel to the newest verision (patched it to
rc6-git7), and rebooted into it.
i disabled lapic and my system hung at startup, happend on the new
kernel as well
dma is enabled on my HD
ok, with all of this said, the horrible news is that my clock is STILL
running fast even with all of this attempted -.-.
now, i have a question, in dmesg and tail, what exactly kind of
unusual stuff am i searching for?
sorry guys, it just doesn't seem to go away
cheers,
Matthew
On 6/12/05, Marco Matthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Resending as it didn't seem to have gotten through the first time:
>
> > Thanks Marco, noapic worked beautifully. now my clock is very much in
> > tune with what time should be like, however, now, my box will not
> > recieve a dhcp ip address whenever i use this option to boot my kernel.
> > any suggestions?
>
> To be honest I have no idea, as my previous suggestion already was an
> uneducated guess. That said, there is another closely related kernel
> option nolapic that you might want to try (just remember to always keep
> an extra entry in grub.conf for a kernel with working settings). By this
> I mean try both noapic and nolapic together.
>
> Maybe this is all fixed in a future kernel, so you might want to try
> Duncans advice and testdrive a new kernel. Turning on DMA on your hdd,
> as Andy suggested, will only help performance, maybe it will also clear
> out your problems - have you checked this? Use hdparm, for example
> "hdparm /dev/hda" to find out if dma is enabled.
>
> It might also be possible to find something looking at the output of:
> tail -n 100 /var/log/messages | less
> dmesg | less
> You might want to check them for anything unusual.
>
> One further note: if you're like me and get APIC and ACPI messed up all
> the time, you might want to check out (I love wikipedia!):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apic
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI
>
> Good luck!
>
> Marco
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