Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ANYONE? Re: SMP + Hyperthreading / Asus PCDL Deluxe / Kernel 2.4.x 2.6.x / Crash/Freeze | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:33:26 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Richard Browning <richard@redline.org.uk> said: > On Saturday 20 March 2004 14:33, Richard Browning wrote: > > Is there anyone in kernelland who is tackling this? I'm currently in the > > throes of recompiling everything with -march=pentium3 -O2 to see if these > > simple flags make a difference (as I reiterate, Windoze XP works without > > problem). I refuse to believe that I will have to use XP in order to get my > > money's worth. I've always thought anything Doze can do, GNU/Linux does > > better!
> It's been pointed out to me that this Doze-vs-Linux comparison won't > help. If you're offended by it, please don't be. I've been a supporter > and contributer to the GNU cause for the last six years and I'm not going > to stop. However this is the first serious issue that I've come across > re: the kernel and incompatible hardware and I would like to see it > fixed. Like I've said, I want to help pinpoint the problem - but no-one's > asking.
In my experience, when Linux crashes, Windows works fine it is flaky hardware. Has variously been overclocking, bad fans (CPU overheating), bad RAM. You have to rule all that out first. Might need a BIOS update... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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