You need to make sure that there are not IRQ conflicts. You might need to go
into BIOS to reset any assignments there or reset your ISA PnP pointings. In
Windows (98) you can get a report about IRQ and conflicts. Don't know how to
check it in Linux yet.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregg Carrier
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] my crashy machine...clues?
>
>
> Well, my Linux system has hung three more times since my original
> post. First
> was in Netscape again. Second, I had Netscape open to a page and
> was trying to
> configure my sound card. I had a Konsole open and was doing a:
> pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
> as many posting in various newsgroups suggest isapnp as my path to
> configuring my sound card on Linux. As soon as I hit enter in
> Konsole, total
> hang. I tried changing windows, ctl-alt-del, everything. Waited for a long
> time with no disk activity and shut off power.
>
> Now, the isapnp thing has me wondering. I had NO problems with
> Linux-Mandrake
> for the first month and a half of its existence other than the zillions of
> newbie configuration difficulties everyone has. The point is, it
> didn't crash.
> Just recently I started screwing around with this isapnp stuff in
> attemts to
> get sound up and running. Today, suddenly, it starts to crash.
>
> I tried the pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf again from the command
> line. Same
> results. This time I was able to switch to other logins, but not
> to actually
> log in. I was able to ctl-c out of the process without shutting
> down as well. I
> looked in /etc and there is a isapnp.conf listing with nothing in it.
> Absolutely empty file. There's also a isapnp.gone file with a bunch of
> commented out lines.
>
> Questions:
> Does this hanging problem with pnpdump point a finger at PnP hardware as a
> possible culprit for my ever-crashing machine?
>
> I noticed when the system is booting now, one of the things it
> does is say:
> Setting up ISA PNP Devices
> which may very well be a result of my tinkerings with the isapnp stuff
> according to various suggestions. Does a fresh L-M 6.1 install
> say this at boot
> time or must I have added this post-install?
>
> Can a flaky sound card make a system hang and cause the kind of
> constant daily
> crashes I get in Windows (Linux is MUCH better in this
> regard...flawless until
> today)? I only ask because Linux was rock-solid before I began tinkering
> extensively with sound card setup and has been weird since.
>
> After crashing, the times I had to interrupt power, a message
> appeared when the
> system was checking the root filesystem. Same message each time:
> Deleted inode 94213 has zero dtime FIXED
> Does that mean anything? Same number and everything each time.
>
> If I knew this was a piece of hardware and knew which one, I'd
> replace it in a
> second. This system is really crashy under Windows, and most of
> its hangs there
> seem to happen during screen repaints, changing to other windows and such.
> Most, but not all. Sometimes it hangs when you're just typing or
> doing nothing
> at all. This is really frustrating and all I really want is some
> systematic way
> to rule out possibilities.
>
> Thanks if you've made it this far! Any help much appreciated!
>
> Gregg
>
