I hope I am not beating a dead horse, but do you have plug and pray aware OS
turned to "OFF" in bios? and your graphics card really will "need" to be in
the pci slot shared with the agp slot. you may also want to run the network
card setup (it is probly a DOS program on the diskette that came with the
card) and see if you can set it's interrupt to something else if you have a
free one?) I would also recommend that when you install the PCI cards you
might want to read the book from the motherboard to see which slots are "bus
master" the Video and controller card will want to be in "bus-master" slots.
now the disclaimer. I have no right to have a computer, and I have no need to
have all these computers running here in my house. but i like it that way.
On Friday 29 June 2001 13:20, you wrote:
> Hi, and sorry for the long email.
> Let me start with a summary:
>
> 1) I've had the computer reboot into console without any error
> messages and then I couldn't log on!!!
> I tried as root and as a user on tty1, tty2, tty4, tty6 and then I
> gave up, resorted to the sysrq sequence and I had no problems on the
> next reboot.
>
> 2) I've had the computer boot into X directly and the login manager
> fails (kdm/gdm) and the computer goes down into runlevel 3, or the
> login manager doesn't fail, but is >>extremely<< slow, KDE takes 15
> min. to start. In the second case, I also couldn't login on tty1-6 to
> kill X.
>
> 3) I've had the computer boot into X directly and have been able to
> log on and work without any problems and then suddenly X dies on me
> and I get the login manager again.
>
> I have no idea whether this is one or many problems with hardware or
> software. I'm up to date on security patches up to and including
> kdelibs from June 27. These are fairly serious problems which make an
> otherwise wonderful version of Mandrake difficult for me to use.
>
> If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Narfi.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ps. I've been using Mandrake for 4 weeks now and I love it! Too bad it
> keeps crashing on me without telling me why.
>
> Details:
>
> Hardware:
>
> Celeron 466 MHz, Intel QS440BX, Award BIOS 2.09,
> Primary Master: IBM drive, boot drive, Windoze only + lilo
> Primary Slave: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
> Secondary Master: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212
> Secondary Slave: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100
> Controller card: SIIG Ultra ATA 66
> On that card is: WD 400BB, set to DMA 33 both on the card and on the
> drive. This drive is linux only.
> Graphics card: ATI Xpert 2000.
> Network card: Linksys LNE 100TX
> Sound: Yamaha YMF-724 Addonics SV550
> TV card: Win-TV GO.
> Monitor: Viewsonic E771
> Printer: HP Deskjet 832C connected through USB.
> and a PS-2 scroll mouse and a 102-keyboard
>
> When I emailed the list about problem 3) I got the suggestion to make
> sure the graphics card had its own interrupt so I moved the network
> card to avoid having the two cards share an irq. The problems still
> persist.
>
> Software:
>
> The 2 GPL Mandrake 8.0 CDs. The MD5 sum was ok, the install was
> without problems. I use KDE, and I've tried both kdm and gdm as the
> login managers, but I've experienced the X crash with both of them.
> I have jserver/wnn, the tiny firewall, postfix + the standard services
> such as usb, xfs etc.
>
> Logs say:
>
> Nothing that I can see to be relevant. I'll break this down by the
> problem:
> 1) Then I can't log in to tty1-6, i.e. I type in my or root's user name
> and password and the only thing that happens is that after approx. 1
> min. the login prompt reappears.
> None of the following contain any record of an attempted login:
> /var/logs/messages, /var/logs/auth.log, /var/logs/login
> 2) Then kdm or gdm don't start properly on boot.
> I couldn't find anything in the logs, that may or may not be due to my
> record keeping.
> 3) If X crashes, /var/log/messages contains lines such as:
> Jun 25 23:46:02 nic-41-c68-180 kdm[1388]: Server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly: 1
> Jun 25 23:46:03 nic-41-c68-180 kde(pam_unix)[3263]: session closed for user
> narfi
> Jun 28 01:43:59 nic-41-c68-180 gdm(pam_unix)[1394]: session closed for user
> narfi
> Jun 29 10:10:09 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3019]: session closed for user
> narfi
>
>
> Finally, dmesg after a successful reboot:
>
> Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs
> -1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0)) #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff3000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> On node 0 totalpages: 98288
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 94192 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> hm, page 01000000 reserved twice.
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=2101 hdd=ide-scsi
> hdb=ide-floppy quiet
> ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
> ide_setup: hdb=ide-floppy
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 467.735 MHz processor.
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 933.88 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 383872k/393152k available (976k kernel code, 8892k reserved, 287k
> data, 696k init, 0k highme
> m)
> Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
> CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
> CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 128K
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb2f0, last bus=1
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
> Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14)
> Starting kswapd v1.8
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe4000000, mapped to 0xd8800000, size 32768k
> vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=33
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4a0b
> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
> vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
> fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> block: queued sectors max/low 254829kB/123757kB, 768 slots per queue
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> PCI: Enabling device 00:0f.0 (0005 -> 0007)
> PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0f.0
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0f.1
> HPT366: chipset revision 1
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
> PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0f.1
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0f.0
> HPT366: chipset revision 1
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hde: WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xa800-0xa807,0xac02 on irq 3
> hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63, UDMA(33)
> hde: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(33)
> hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> hdb: No disk in drive
> hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 >
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Uncompressing....done.
> Freeing initrd memory: 71k freed
> Serial driver version 5.05 (2000-12-13) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
> SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP
> enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=3
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 696k freed
> Adding Swap: 255488k swap-space (priority -1)
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9100 Rev: 1.0c
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> i2c-core.o: i2c core module
> i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> bttv: driver version 0.7.62 loaded
> bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
> bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.1
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.0
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:09.0, irq: 10, latency: 64, memory: 0xec008000
> bttv0: subsystem: 0070:13eb => Hauppauge WinTV => card=10
> bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new (bt878)) [autodetected]
> bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
> bttv0: Hauppauge msp34xx: reset line init
> i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
> bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=38101, tuner=Philips FI1236 MK2 (2),
> radio=no bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
> tvaudio: known chips:
> tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
> i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
> tuner: chip found @ 0x61
> bttv0: i2c attach [Philips NTSC]
> i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
> MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
> MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
> MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
> MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 23:13:16 Apr 15 2001
> usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.1
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.0
> usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 10
> usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 2
> usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x404) is not claimed by any active
> driver.
> usb.c: registered new driver usblp
> printer.c: Disabling reads from problem bidirectional printer on usblp0
> printer.c: usblp0: device node registration failed
> printer.c: usblp0: USB Unidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1
> ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
> ip_conntrack (3071 buckets, 24568 max)
> Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
> Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=97 devrev=73 oldid=ff
> Winbond chip type 83977TF / SMSC 97w33x/97w34x
> Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07
> Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3
> Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0
> Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7
> SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
> 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
> 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16
> 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16
> 0x378: PWord is 8 bits
> 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
> 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48
> 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14d (April 3, 2001)
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.1
> eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xa400, 00:A0:CC:E2:3D:B0, IRQ 10.
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:11.0
> ymfpci: YMF724F at 0xec000000 IRQ 5
> ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7605 (SigmaTel STAC9704)
> Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
> Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=97 devrev=73 oldid=ff
> Winbond chip type 83977TF / SMSC 97w33x/97w34x
> Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07
> Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3
> Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0
> Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7
> SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
> 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
> 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16
> 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16
> 0x378: PWord is 8 bits
> 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
> 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48
> 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> inserting floppy driver for 2.4.3-20mdk
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
