On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 06:13, Alex Deucher wrote: > My system has been locking up reliably ever since I > upgraded my athlon 850 to an XP 1600+. Perhaps it is > this bug manifesting itself. Nothing strange shows up > in the logs. What's odd though is that it was rock > solid with the old Athlon. > > Hardware is KT133A, matrox G550, Xfree CVS from Dec., > kernel 2.4.13. > > My first though was maybe a bios issue, but there are > no new bioses available for my board. My next thought > was perhaps a bug in Xfree, or the kernel, but I > haven't had time to try a new xfree or kernel. Maybe > today. > > Alex > > Yeah, I've had random lockups about once a day since I migrated work workstation at work to Linux. Completely random, always figured it was the soundblaster interaction. To see if you're vulnerable: Run "cat /proc/cpuinfo". cpu family : 6 model : 6 stepping : 2 Then you should be safe. Running it on mine: cpu family : 6 model : 2 stepping : 2 Looks like I'm susceptible. I've since added the mem=nopentium line in grub. We'll see what happens.... --Chris -- Christopher Keller Systems Engineer "Want fixed-wireless broadband access? We're coming." BeamReach Networks -- Sunnyvale, CA
