Dear Alan,
I'm writing to You because of my problem with kernels > 2.2.17.
This kernel is the last that works on my machine. I've tried almost
all, including 2.3.x and 2.5.x, but they simple don't work. After
compilation and reboot system starts as usual, but after few minutes,
when I'm trying to switch to different console, all freezes. On some
kernels I saw message like "timeout: AT keyborad not present?". But
the keyboard is on the right place. Usually there is no error/warning
messages at all (so I don't have any debug info). I've included my
dmesg (from 2.2.17) and interrupts. My hardware:
PROC: p200MMX
MB: pc chips, SiS, tx-pro m570(v12), apg, 1MB L2 cache, onboard soundpro
MEM: 64MB sdram
GFX: diamond viper v330 agp (4mb)
NIC: realtek8139 (D-Link NetEasy)
HDD: 2x3.2GB (samsung & seagate, both udma33)
The stranges thing is that I have other 2 OS's on this machine:
FreeBSD 4.5 and Windows98SE, and they works correctly and pretty
stable. Why Linux doesn't work? The main question is: what was
changed in kernel from version 2.2.17 to 2.2.19? Is there any
critical changes? I asked a lot of people, but they couldn't help
(in 99% the answer was: upgrade/check your hardware...). So I've
decided to write to You, the most known kernel hacker. If You won't
give me any answer, I'll probably just buy a new computer...
Thank You for interesting in my problem. :) And sorry for my fatal
english. I'm waiting for Your reply.
Best regards,
-- Eugenij 'dino' Butusov dinorage@wp.pl | dino@laizsme.edu.pl--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: dmesg_2.2.17 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=dm2-2-17
Linux version 2.2.17 (dino@matrix.awr.open.net.pl) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #2 sob lut 23 00:41:31 CET 2002 Detected 200456 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 399.77 BogoMIPS Memory: 62948k/65536k available (992k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1068k data, 116k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb61, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS5591 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: SAMSUNG WU33205A (3.2GB), ATA DISK drive hdc: ST33221A, ATA DISK drive hdd: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: SAMSUNG WU33205A (3.2GB), 3090MB w/109kB Cache, CHS=785/128/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ST33221A, 3077MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=6253/16/63, UDMA(33) hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 307.467 MB/sec p5_mmx : 360.807 MB/sec 8regs : 218.313 MB/sec 32regs : 172.212 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (360.807 MB/sec) md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3! < hda6 hda7 > hdc: [PTBL] [781/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed Adding Swap: 133016k swap-space (priority -1) rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11, 00:50:ba:5d:37:4c. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP] parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 720C lp0: using parport0 (polling).
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CPU0 0: 217772 XT-PIC timer 1: 18072 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 11: 2972 XT-PIC eth0 12: 7948 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 19 XT-PIC ide0 15: 5374 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0
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