On Sun, 02 May 1999, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
> About a week and a half ago, I came home to find my screen filled with
> looked like memory stack dump. At the bottom of the screen were a couple
> of lines of text that read (loosely): "Aaiee...tried to kill the idle
> task!" and "Kernel panic...killing the interrupt handler." I have been
> working this problem on and off ever since then, and still don't have it
> solved. The machine is one I assembled from bits, and it is/was running
> SuSE Linux 6.0 with kernel 2.2.1. It had 40MB of RAM, but while
> troubleshooting, I found that one of my SIMMs was not getting reported as
> EDO and so I swapped it and its complement out. The box now has 32MB
> RAM. The video card is a generic S3 VirGE/DX with 8(?)MB and 170MHz
> RAMDAC. The monitor is a Cornerstone 45/101nf 19".
>
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Hm... It really sounds like you've got some buggy hardware somewhere. I can
see Kernel 2.0.36 giving an oops, because it's handling of certain hardware was
(only slightly) buggy. But the 2.2.x series is very stable. 2.2.x should not
be giving that type of error on your system.
And if you're getting it with these boot disks, then there is most definately a
problem. Why don't you send us a COMPLETE list of your hardware, i.e.,
motherboard, brand and type of RAM, brand and size of HD, brand of Video Card
(just the chipset won't do), Sound Board, all IDE or SCSI devices, and all of
the rest of the hardware.
Also, try to give the addresses and interrupts for the hardware that you know.
It's very possible that there's a hardware conflict somewhere in your system,
but who knows for sure...
See, DOS 7.x doesn't actually use all of the resources in a system. Linux uses
everything that there is, no questions asked. If Linux has a driver for it, it
gets used, and believe me, it's used to the fullest. =)
Good luck, and I hope that the problem can be resolved quickly.
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Sunday, May 02, 1999
The Borg assimilated my race & all I got was this T-shirt
