Re: dell inspiron and 2.4.18?

[John Jasen]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, John Jasen wrote:

> I have a Dell Inspiron 3700 running Redhat 7.2 with the latest updates,
> and I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.18. On random intervals, usually within
> about 10 minutes of usage, it hangs completely solid.
>
> Enabling sysrq, recompiling 2.4.18 with kdb, and going to tinker with APIC
> tomorrow. Results, kernel .config, lspci -v, and so forth will be posted
> when I'm more awake.
>
> Anyway, the short form: anyone else have any problems, or have I gone
> crazy again?

kernel config, dmesg output, lspci -vv output, /proc/interrupts and
/proc/pci have been posted to http://www.realityfailure.org/~jjasen/dell/

this is for kernel-2.4.18, with kdb patched and enabled, sysrq enabled,
and I'm sitting here waiting for it to go wrong.

And waiting!

uptime
  4:28pm  up 13 min,  6 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.44, 0.35

Any ideas?

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