Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:21:31 -0400 | From | Pete Toscano <> | Subject | Re: Are we going too fast? |
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I'm running a SMP (2xPIII 600) on a Tyan Tiger mobo (Via Apollo Pro 133a chipset) with a G400 and it runs fine, when I do the following:
- disable APIC ("noapic" as a boot parameter). Then again, the system won't boot without APIC disabled. - use the ALSA drivers for my SoundBlaster Live. (I haven't tried the kernel-based drivers for a few version now, so this situation might have changes, but up until I switched to ALSA, I had crashes all the time during medium to high I/O. - use the uhci USB driver when I'm using a USB printer. If I use the usb-uhci driver with my USB printer, the whole system locks. This has been reported a few times on LKML, linux-usb-users, and linux-usb-developers and nobody helped, but a few people wrote back with "me too"s. It was broken in the trasnition from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 and only seems to affect SMP systems. I just gave up on USB printing and went back to my parallel port.
Finally, I'm using RedHat 7.1. This system has no stability problems now (after a long series of all kinds of stability problems). Maybe it's a load thing, I don't know, but it now runs stable.
pete
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Francois Romieu wrote:
> I'm not convinced that gaining stability on a VIA + G400 + X + smp > combo is an easy task anyway. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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