Horrible problems trying to run Linux on my hardware

Bob Chiodini chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 3 17:45:11 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:31, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:

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> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 6:10 pm, Wade Hampton wrote:
> > xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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> > >Greetings,
> > >
> > >Hardware:
> > >ASUS motherboard with 82801EB Intel chipset (865G video, 82562EZ
> LAN),
> > >Hyperthread support, Enhanced P-ATA/S-ATA, USB 2.0.
> > >1 GB ram
> > >Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
> > >3 harddisks, first one is the boot disk using Windows XP Pro (with
> dual
> > > boot off of the third disk for Linux using XP boot manager) UDMA
> 2, the
> > > other two are UDMA 5, the last disk being for Linux with /, /boot,
> /var
> > > and swap partitions).
> > >LG DVD/CD-RW combo
> > >Adaptec SCSI 2930 PCI card
> > >[snip]
> > >
> > >I managed to upgrade the system using the Internet until everything
> was at
> > > "0 updates needed".  It was still VERY slow and I had a few times
> where
> > > the system froze completely, necessitating a press of the reset
> button.
> >
> > This crash sounds like it could be the Fedora SMP kernel issue that
> has
> > been discussed on this list and RedHat's bugzilla.  You might want
> to see:
> >
> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
> >
> > Also look a the thread about
> >     Re: System lockup with SMP Kernel.
> >
> > As for the running slow, that is a different problem.
> > --
> > Wade Hampton
> 
> Thanks for the reply...
> 
> I seem to get from the bug reports and message threads that it could
> be ACPI 
> or autofs.  If it IS ACPI, maybe this is the reason for my slowdown
> also.  I 
> need to check and find out what what to do, but I can't do anything
> since I 
> can't get back into X.  Any ideas on what I can do to get my X server
> back 
> up?  This is the real problem for me right now...
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Have you tried turning off ACPI at boot up?  Type 'a' at the grub boot
screen and enter acpi=off to the kernel command line.

Bob...
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