Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.22-pre2 and AthlonMP | From | Edward Tandi <> | Date | 29 Jun 2003 00:52:08 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 00:17, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 23:50, Edward Tandi wrote: > > > > using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' > > > > Jun 28 18:27:46 machine kernel: BIOS failed to enable PCI standards > > > > compliance, fixing this error. > > > > > > Start by upgrading to their current BIOS > > > > Believe or not, it _is_ the latest bios for that board > > (Tyan S2460 BIOS v1.05, 2nd Jan 2003). > > Then I guess you have a problem. We try and fix up BIOS problems but there > is a limit to what we can do, and if it has problems like the one that is > logged I'd be worried what else it might do - eg I suspect Nvidia 4x AGP cards > aren't too solid on it.
It does have an AGP NVidia card in it. I'm using the standard XFree drivers with it at the moment but I have played UT on it for hours before (using NVidia drivers) without problems. It might be an AGP x2 card though. The computer is now mostly a back-end server and I haven't really pushed it on the graphics side recently.
Could the problem be caused by some BIOS setting? I could spend some time looking at them.
> The APIC errors also suggest something isn't happy at all at the hardware > layer. Are you using MP processors ?
Yes, MP processors. This is not a new machine, It has been running quite nicely for nearly two years. There have been some kernel releases in the past that have shown some instability, but I can usually find a fairly recent version and tweak the kernel-build settings so that it becomes stable.
The version running prior to this one was 2.4.21-rc3. This version allowed me to specify noapic.
Ed-T.
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