Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:10:13 -0800 | From | Robert Woodcock <> | Subject | matroxfb, console switches, and BP6 SMP |
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Hello, once every week or so (it seems like only after using X for a while and then switching virtual consoles a lot, and never when the system has less than around 2 days uptime) my system will hang (no oops, no panic, no ping, no numlock, no sysrq) during the middle of a console switch. Sometimes it displays half of one console and half of the other, with one character of garbage inbetween to separate. I was wondering if anyone else was hitting this and knew why.
It only started doing this since I picked up the SMP hardware a month ago, and the crashes are similar and consistent enough that I really don't think it's the hardware.
I haven't tried any kernel other than stock 2.2.14 so far. I'm using gcc 2.95.2 (egcs) to compile it.
I'm using matroxfb consoles in mode matrox:vesa:0x118, here's the rest of my hardware:
Abit BP6 Two Celeron 400's 128MB RAM Matrox G200 DEC Tulip NE2000 clone (unused currently) Ensoniq AudioPCI SymBIOS 53c875 SCSI SCSI disks Adaptec AHA-152x SCSI SCSI CDRW and Compaq PD-650 optical drive External serial modem PS/2 mouse
Here's my .config:
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_M686=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_1GB=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET_RARP=m CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_IPV6=m CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64=y CONFIG_IPV6_NO_PB=y CONFIG_ATALK=m CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m CONFIG_AIC7XXX_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8 CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20 CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_EL3=m CONFIG_VORTEX=m CONFIG_RTL8139=m CONFIG_NET_ISA=y CONFIG_NE2000=m CONFIG_NET_EISA=y CONFIG_DEC_ELCP=m CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO100=m CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=m CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m CONFIG_PPP=m CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_CODA_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_SUNRPC=m CONFIG_LOCKD=m CONFIG_SMB_FS=m CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370=m CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16=m CONFIG_MAD16_OLDCARD=y CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232=m CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
If there's any other system-related info any of the SMP hackers need, name it. -- Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org "Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- The Fifth Element
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