Many good questions, let me break the answer down.
On Saturday 07 July 2001 07:01, etharp wrote:
> so it looks to me as if you have not tried the second PCI slot and I would
> wonder if you might not make the changes in BIOS to lock in a IRQ at a
> certain PCI slot.
I moved the ethernet card to the 2nd PCI slot and I've booted 10 times now
without any problems. I hereby declare this a success!
Of course I still have to re-insert the WinTv-Go card and the sound card.
More on that and the irqs below. I also have yet to try to boot into kdm/gdm
instead of xdm but 10 reboots is enough in any one day!
> do you have any ISA cards? are they plug and pray? is
> plug and pray OS set to NO in Bios?
No ISA cards, PNP OS is set to no in the BIOS.
> as far as the halt during boot up, can
> you send me (off list would be OK) your /var/log/dmseg file. you may have
> some network service or some other thing trying to load at boot up that is
> timing out. (my guess is that you are trying to log on to the cable modem
> with DHCP, and since it can not find the network we wind up timing out.
> Since you don't have a network working, maybe you can disable networking
> until everything else is working OK?
Well, if my bootups continue to be successful, I won't need to take these
steps. That's of course the best solution.
> you have 2 network cards starting
> (eth0 and eth1) do they both have static IPs?
Just one card and it doesn't have a static IP.
The current card setup is:
AGP: The graphics card,
PCI slot 1: empty
PCI slot 2: network card, Linksys LNE 100, version 2.
PCI slot 3: SIIG Ultra ATA controller card [set for UDMA 33]
PCI slot 4: empty
PCI slot 5: empty
and the interrupts are:
AGP: 11
PCI slot 2: 5
PCI slot 3: 3
USB port: 10
Bridge: 9
Parallel port: 7
Serial port: 4
The question I have now is how should I place the WinTV-Go card and the sound
card. As is to be expected, slot 1 uses the same irq as the AGP slot and
slots 4 and 5 have the same interrupt as the USB port.
Thanks a lot,
Narfi.
ps. Here's the output from my dmesg:
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 467.733 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 highmem)
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 254832kB/123760kB, 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 0xac00-0xac07, 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 0xb800-0xb807, 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 0xa400-0xa407,0xa802 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
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
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(98)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 830C
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14d (April 3, 2001)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:11.0
eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xbc00, 00:A0:CC:E2:3D:B0, IRQ 5.
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(98)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 830C
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
