On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:31:55AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
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> Seems to me some of us have reported just that. Like me. I used to
> get 1 or 2 crashes daily, then turned off APM and ACPI in the BIOS,
> removed APM from the kernel, put append="noapic" in lilo.conf, and
> didn't have one crash in a couple of weeks of continuous kernel
> compiles. I've given up trying to make it die.
I did all that moons ago. If it solves it for you, well and good. I
still get locks, typically in the 2-3 week range however.
I don't recall if this was posted here or elsewhere, but I have seen 2
posts from those who have changed to compiling APM support in the
kernel, but leaving it turned off in the BIOS. Both that reported this
say it gave them increased stability (one of them was in the 3-4 week
range IIRC). The theory being that even though APM is disabled in the
BIOS, it is still issuing interrupts, and without APM kernel support
there is no way to deal with this. One more straw to grasp at ...
> My configuration:
>
> BP6 with "old" BIOS (I forget what it's called)
> Dual 366's running at 525 Mhz, 2.1V
> 128M ECC PC100 SDRAM
> AOpen HX45A case with associated 250W power supply
> WD 18G UDMA 7200 RPM HD as /dev/hda
> ATAPI CD-ROM as /dev/hdc (using SCSI emulation)
> Floppy drive
> RIVA TNT 16MB AGP video, 1280x1024, 24-bit color
Which X server?
> ISA NE2000 clone on IRQ 10
> Creative Labs AudioPCI sound
> Red Hat 6.0
> KDE 1.1.2 running 24/7
>
> If someone has something I should test, let me know... but please be
> specific.
60 day uptime ;)
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