On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:54:45 -0700 Tobias Rice wrote: | | | Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:59:56 -0700 Tobias Rice wrote: | | | | | | | | I have a single cpu laptop P4 with HT. I assumed that when compiling I'd | | | select SMP and Hyperthreading Support, but it gacks when I try to boot | | | from the new kernel. Am I wrong to assume I'd use SMP? | | | I'm using the 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org and the ck8 patch. | | | | Yes, you need SMP for HT. Can you try it without the ck patch? | | or try 2.6.9-rc3. | | | | Define gacks. any messages? | | | By gack I mean all I see is the Loading Linux..... | ...and the screen goes black. | | I tried many other configurations w/ck and w/o ck and 2.6.9-rc3. | 2.6.9-rc3 actully booted once and saw "both" cpus. But my nvida driver | won't compile under 2.6.9-rc3 :(
Kernel driver or external driver? | Some errors I saw along the way: | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS | detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL | ~ ) @ 0x000fdea0 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R | 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0000 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R | 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0400 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL CPi R | 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000047) @ 0x1fff0c00 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx | 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] | lapic_id[0x00] enabled) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] | lapic_id[0x01] enabled) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. | Processor ignored. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high | edge lint[0x1]) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high | edge lint[0x1]) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to | 'noapic' option. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: | BOOT_IMAGE=LinuxOLD ro root=1604 noapic video=vesa | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Initializing CPU#0 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order | 11: 16384 bytes) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Detected 3190.523 MHz processor. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Using pmtmr for high-res timesource | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: | 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 | (order: 6, 262144 bytes) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Memory: 513948k/524092k available | (2845k kernel code, 9388k reserved, 1170k data, 168k init, 0k highmem) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Checking if this processor honours the | WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 6324.22 BogoMIPS | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 | (order: 0, 4096 bytes) | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After generic identify, caps: | bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After vendor identify, caps: | bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After all inits, caps: | bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check architecture | supported. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled | on CPU#0. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs | (12) available | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) | 4 CPU 3.20GHz stepping 09 | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... | done. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception | support... done. | Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. | | | After google'n around about the Dell BIOS broken... I forced acpi on by | commenting out some lines in my | /usr/src/linux/arc/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file and recompiled. I no | longer get the message. ACPI seem to be working. CPUDyn is working. | Since smp/ht needs acpi I hoped that editing my source would fix it. I | checked off the smp/2 and ht in my 2.6.8.1-ck9 .config and recompiled. | Black screen again, frozen, no errors. | Arrrrrggg! | | Any suggestions? Have you looked at http://www.minion.de/ for NVIDIA driver updates and helpful hints? This is not an NFORCE2 chipset, is it? There are some patches floating around for that also. I don't have any other specific ideas, sorry. -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
