Re: Kernel Error Messages in /var/log

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:46:13 +0100 (MET)


On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Have you enabled triton DMA??? That would only worsen the problem.
>
> yes. This machine has been running for about a year this way (with whatever
> kernel was the latest stable kernel last Dec. .28 or.29 I do not recall).
> This just started last month. The machine has been rock solid otherwise.
> BTW multiple kernel compiles as of last week are just fine, Ie: no sig 11's
> or anything like that.

Maybe you should try without triton DMA support, or
maybe without pci_bridge_optimizations or maybe
you should make your bios timings a little less
agressive...

2 or 3 patch-levels further on, things might
magically work again :)
(I don't work on the 2.0 series, so I don't
know what changed over there)

success,

Rik.