Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:26:33 +0100 | From | Fort David <> | Subject | Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older) |
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"Benjamin Monate
> In his message of Sat 18 November, Andrew Morton writes : > > Try booting with the `noapic' option. Looks like your APIC > > is getting itself unprogrammed. Check that you're not > > overclocked and not over temperature. > > Booting with noapic did not improve anything. > The processor is not supposed to be overclocked. How can I be sure of > that ? > > Further investigations showed that the problem will occur only when > Xfree 4.0.1 is running with an smp kenel . Xfree 3.3.6 is ok. Could this > be a bug in X ? I thought that the kernel should prevent such a bug > from locking the computer. > > Thank you again for your help. > -- >
What 's your video card ? Not something running with closed source drivers ? (namely G-force) The kernel cannot prevent drivers from locking PCI/AGP bus.
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