Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VLdynamite locking up using ATI driver.

[<nig...@ju...>]

Not sure if I'm doing this right.. In lilo.conf, I changed the line:
append =3D "" =

to this:
append =3D "nosmp"
or:
append =3D "maxcpus=3D0"

and then ran "lilo"

In both cases, I get some kind of IDE errors:
--- snip--
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128 KiB
hda: lost interrupt             <------- here is where it slows down--
hda: lost interrupt             <----- no response to keyboard---
hda: lost interrupt =

hda: lost interrupt =

hda: (xxxxxxx sectors, size, cache, UDMA status...)
hda: cache flush supported
hda:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status =3D=3D 0x661
hda: lost interrupt =

 hda1:
hda: lost interrupt =

=2E......

It repeats this for hdb and hdc, after around 5 minutes, about halfway
through hdc the screen goes blank and nothing more happens. =


Are there variances in the syntax I should try?

Roy


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Found it! Can you try one of these?:

The `nosmp' Argument:
Use of this option will tell a SMP kernel on a SMP machine to operate
single processor.  Typically only used for debugging and determining
if a particular problem is SMP related.

The `maxcpus=3D' Argument:
The number given with this argument limits the maximum number of CPUs
activated in SMP mode.  Using a value of 0 is equivalent to the nosmp
option.

Regards,
Joe1962



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