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

[Jose J. R. <jo...@gm...>]

On 9/6/06, nig...@ju... <nig...@ju...> wrote:
> Not sure if I'm doing this right.. In lilo.conf, I changed the line:
> append = ""
> to this:
> append = "nosmp"
> or:
> append = "maxcpus=0"
>
> 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 == 0x661
> hda: lost interrupt
>  hda1:
> hda: lost interrupt
> .......
>
> 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?
>

Sounds right to me. Anyway, just found another one specifically for HT:

"The `noht' Argument:
This will disable hyper-threading on intel processors that have this feature."

HTH.

Joe1962